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Mr. Beaks Presents His Top 100 Films Of The Decade! Part One Of Four Thrilling Installments!
"Remember the bad guys on the shows you used to watch on Saturday mornings? Well, these guys aren't like those guys. They won't exercise restraint because you are children. They will kill you if they get the chance. Do not give them that chance."
Preamble
Combine the contentious tenor of the times with the monumental changeover from film to digital, and you would think this past decade would've been a watershed for the medium. It wasn't. If anything, it was a regression. Though there were a number of fine, paradigm-shattering films released over the last ten years, our most talented filmmakers embraced limiting technology (i.e. 3-D and performance capture) in order to appear "forward-looking". In the process, they forgot, or simply stopped caring about, the limitless possibilities of storytelling - right as they were about to enter the most exciting artistic period of their careers. Basically, they gazed into the abyss, realized it was their bathroom mirror, and ran back to the sandbox.
Though Spielberg shrunk from the challenge, many younger filmmakers took up the gauntlet and became our generation's Scorseses, Coppolas and Malicks. Some came from music videos, a few stumbled out of the Sundance lab, and one got his start shooting a geeky British television series. Film may be stagnating, but it isn't hurting; it's just waiting for these new talents to push the medium forward. And from what I've heard about their upcoming efforts, we've every reason to be hopeful.
Now about this list...
My movie decade began inauspiciously with the unsigned Walter Hill film, SUPERNOVA. It will likely end - auspiciously, I hope - with James Cameron's AVATAR. That's right: like everyone else, I have not seen AVATAR, and probably won't until next week. I am also waiting on THE LOVELY BONES, INVICTUS, NINE, SHERLOCK HOLMES and ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL. Obviously, the Cameron and Jackson films stand a decent chance of cracking the top 100 if either director is at the top of his game. But since I don't feel like waiting until the Christmas holiday to reflect on a full ten years of movies, I've decided to just do my list now, and make adjustments if need be. And if you've got a problem with that, remember that Premiere and American Film closed out the '80s in October of '89 by calling it for Martin Scorsese's RAGING BULL. I'd like to think my number one is equally clear cut.
As for criteria, these are not "The 100 Most Important Films of the Decade", nor are they "The 100 Most Award-Worthy Films as Determined by a Group of Fifteen or So Oscar Bloggers Trying To Decipher The Whims of Academy Voters." This is my list. These are the films that moved me, that connected emphatically on their own terms. In other words, just because you tried to put the kibosh on the trading of conflict diamonds doesn't mean your film is automatically worthier than a pseudo-documentary that climaxes with some idiot shoving a toy car up their ass. Pedigree and genre are irrelevant to me; conviction, on the other hand, is key.
In terms of ranking, this list is, aside from the top fourteen, not set in stone. In writing up the first twenty-five movies, I dropped out two titles and bumped one up into the top fifty. One of the films was omitted because I felt I was kowtowing to its cultural significance; when pressed, I decided I really liked the film, but not enough to put it above forty-seven other excellent movies. That film (and many others) will be found on the "Just Missed" list, which I'll publish with the top twenty-five.
Finally, because I have not had time to re-watch every film on this list, I have opted to excerpt paragraphs from previous reviews (if one was written). Since I doubt anyone remembers what I wrote the first time around, I have no qualms with quoting myself (even though it's what conceited individuals typically do). Also, the passage of time has allowed certain films to overtake others in stature. So don't go looking to my previous top tens (if you can find them) for hints as to what the top movies might be. Enough. The first twenty-five...
100. BRING IT ON (2000, d. Peyton Reed, w. Jessica Bendinger)
I'm not joking. Dubbed "The CITIZEN KANE of cheerleader movies" by no less an authority than Roger Ebert (even though he shorted the film a couple of stars in his initial review), Peyton Reed's BRING IT ON is that rare teen-skewing film that manages to please its audience (basically by not being boring), while smuggling in clever, subversive elements for older men desperate to justify their ninety-minute leer. From the exuberant opening musical number (quite unexpected at the time) to the climactic cheer competition (where you're rooting for Kirsten Dunst's team to finish second), Reed and screenwriter Jessica Bendinger combine to deliver an uncommonly smart high school comedy worthy of John Hughes in his prime. There are lots of terrific individual scenes (like the flirty brush-off between Kristen Dunst and Jesse Bradford, or, y'know, the bikini car wash), but the film's secret weapon is mighty Ian Roberts goin' Fosse as Sparky Polastri, a pill-popping mercenary choreographer who maniacally preaches the gospel of "spirit fingers". Reed quietly went on to have a terrific decade with DOWN WITH LOVE and THE BREAK-UP. The Jim Carrey vehicle YES MAN was his only (minor) misstep. And then there's the whole FANTASTIC FOUR fiasco, which, if nothing else, will make for a juicy chapter in his memoir.
99. THE ICE HARVEST (2005, d. Harold Ramis, w. Robert Benton and Richard Russo)
Harold Ramis's cold-hearted, Christmas-set Midwestern noir about a Wichita, Kansas mob lawyer's inept attempts to cut out of town with the ill-gotten haul of a lifetime is as deliciously nasty a take on human venality as FARGO. But there's no Marge Gunderson to offset the unpleasantness, so audiences stayed the hell away when an indifferent Focus Features left the film for dead over the 2005 Thanksgiving holiday. Critics weren't much help back then either (dirty little not-so-secret: if it's November, and the studio ain't pushing for an Oscar, publicists will practically write a dismissive review for you), but perceptive fellas like The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin have begun to throw down in defense of this unrepentantly bleak number, which avoids being a complete soul-crusher thanks to Ramis's understatement and John Cusack's sympathetic portrayal of the poor sap protagonist who's got it coming. The ever-undervalued Oliver Platt is also likable as an incorrigible drunk who's unhappily married to Cusack's harpy of an ex-wife. Save this one for Christmas Eve with the family!
From my 2006 Collider review: "Only a filmmaker with the ingratiating instincts of Harold Ramis could make a noir as pleasurably nasty as The Ice Harvest, in which fingers are severed, feet are stabbed and heads blown clean off to offhandedly comedic effect. Ramis isn’t mean enough to delight in the grisliness of Scott Phillips novel, adapted by the expert screenwriting team of Robert Benton and Richard Russo, so he just shoots it all in his typically understated manner, preferring matter-of-factness to wallowing in the gore. The result is a lean, eighty-nine minute existential muse that lends itself to repeat viewings."
98. KINSEY (2004, w. & d. Bill Condon)
From my 2004 AICN review: "Moderation... [is] the most telling characteristic of Bill Condon’s striking, controlled, and deeply affecting KINSEY. Navigating the many pitfalls that normally render the biopic a thudding, studious bore, Condon has pieced together a sympathetic portrait of the complex and still controversial sexologist Alfred Kinsey, who destroyed a nation’s ignorant notions about sexuality with the publication of his SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE, and, in the process, sowed the seeds of his own (unjustifiably) ignoble downfall at the hands of outraged academics and religious fanatics. Because Kinsey’s findings remain largely antithetical to the beliefs of certain strict (and well-funded) Christian Right organizations and their inveighing, microphoned mouthpieces, one expects that the film will be subject to the same cannily organized charges that have sought to invalidate his findings ever since the first study was made public in 1948. But Condon’s careful, compassionate work will stand as its own loud refutation of such fact-challenged noise, for his is a film interested in opening minds rather than closing them." It should also be noted that, between KINSEY and DREAMGIRLS, Condon has quietly established himself as one of our more gifted widescreen composers - and while I love a good deal of the latter film, KINSEY is, for whatever reason, the one that keeps resonating.
97. WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (2001, d. David Wain, w. Wain and Michael Showalter)
Because any film in which Christopher Meloni gets a knowing nod from a can of mixed vegetables (after said can helped him work through his shame-ridden sexual yearnings for inanimate objects) is one for the ages. But also because then rookie director David Wain pulled off a minor miracle in parodying '80s summer camp movies while actually making his own '80s summer camp movie. Strip away the absurd humor, and, at its core, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER is a bittersweet tale of first love, with Michael Showalter's nice guy Coop trying to steal nice girl Katie (Marguerite Moreau) away from bad boy Andy (Paul Rudd) - who, while trying to get in Elizabeth Banks's pants, twice commits negligent homicide. Katie's farewell speech to Coop is the most horrifying worst-fears-realized moment in a high school film since Lawrence Monoson walked in on Diane Franklin and Steve Antin kissing in THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN. But the film's piece de resistance is Michael Ian Black sneaking off to the equipment shed for a torrid tryst with a most unexpected paramour.
96. THE PIANO TEACHER (2002, w. & d. Michael Haneke)
Isabelle Huppert is a severe piano teacher whose repressed sexual desires explode when she enters into a lustful relationship with one of her students (Benoit Magimel). The young man wants the usual (straight-up fucking), but the teacher, who's spent many lonely years honing her fetishistic yearnings (all the while returning home to sleep in the same bed as her equally severe mother), wants to play sadomasochistic games. The unraveling that follows is painful to watch, but, if you can stomach it, it's one of the most intellectually credible studies of sexually aberrant behavior ever put to film. Take that, Zalman King.
95. RAISING VICTOR VARGAS (2002, d. Peter Sollett, w. Sollet and Eva Vives)
A big-hearted romantic comedy set in Manhattan's Lower East Side, RAISING VICTOR VARGAS was exactly the kind of hopeful, homegrown film we needed to see out of the city after 9/11. Though it was shot prior to the attacks, Peter Sollett's movie still felt like a defiant, shoulder-brushing answer to the nation's doubts about the resilience of NYC; I mean, what could be more comforting in the wake of an unthinkable tragedy than the sight of teenage kids falling in and out of love like nothing ever happened? This may be a lot to heap on a small-scale independent film, but that's honestly the way I felt after watching a screener of RAISING VICTOR VARGAS in late 2002. That was the moment I knew we'd be okay. Sollett and Eva Vives wrote their screenplay for this largely non-professional cast after shooting the short film "Five Feet High and Rising" with them. Remarkably, no one runs away with the movie: Victor Rasuk and Judy Marte are terrific as the young could-be lovers, Silvestre Rasuk is immensely sympathetic as Victor's piano-prodigy little brother Nino, and Altagracia Guzman earns huge laughs as the overburdened grandmother trying her damndest to raise two very different boys. Whereas most filmmakers troll ethnic big-city neighborhoods looking for misery or inspiration, Sollett went looking for a universal story. It's a beautifully done, stunningly assured work (with nice, understated cinematography from Tim Orr), and it deserves a wider audience.
94. TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY (2005, d. Adam McKay, w. McKay and Will Ferrell)
From my 2005 Collider review: "Ricky Bobby, the Michael Jordan of NASCAR played to jut-jawed perfection by Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights, loves to go fast and finish first. And when he doesn’t finish first, he doesn’t finish at all, preferring to smash up his high-performance stock car while hewing to the philosophy of his no-account drunk of a father: “If you ain’t first, you’re last”. Luckily for Ricky Bobby, he’s one hell of a driver; as he brags to an on-track reporter, “When I wake up in the morning, I piss excellence.” And his winning ways have netted him millions of dollars in endorsements, a smokin’ hot wife (Leslie Bibb), two bratty children who enjoy threatening their decrepit grandfather with physical violence, and the unflagging loyalty of his best friend and racing team partner, Cal Naughton (John C. Reilly)." Though not as memorably insane as ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGANDY, this is still vintage McKay/Ferrell. And the addition of Sacha Baron Cohen as an aggressively French (and gay) nemesis for the aggressively American Ricky Bobby gives the film a subversive charge that, shockingly, didn't seem to bother the NASCAR faithful, who helped make TALLADEGA NIGHTS a box office smash. I initially though McKay could've been rougher in parodying this culture, but "You taste of America" sends the right message.
93. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (2005, w. & d. Noah Baumbach)
From my Collider review interview with Noah Baumbach: "MIA since 1997, Noah Baumbach has finally returned to filmmaking with the cruelest dramatization of divorce since Alan Parker’s Shoot the Moon, though this one’s preferable because it has the good sense to be funny. That’s not meant to be snide in the least; as anyone lucky enough to have a front seat to marital discord in their youth will tell you, there’s something queasily amusing about the disintegration of one’s family. Oh, sure, you cry a lot, start listening to The Smiths and, maybe, begin experimenting with drugs, but watching the two people who instilled your moral foundation act like fools is the stuff high comedy. You have to laugh; the only other option is depression, and you might as well wait until you hit your own adulthood before opting into the great gray." If you've ever experienced anything close to what's depicted in Baumbach's film, you know why it's here. Even if he sort of blows it after pulling the trigger on the Big Third Act Incident, THE SQUID AND THE WHALE gets across the agony of divorce like no film before or since.
92. GONE BABY GONE (2007, d. Ben Affleck, w. Affleck and Aaron Stockard)
From my 2007 CHUD review: "Gone Baby Gone puts the film critic at a disadvantage. For most of its 114-minute runtime, it's content to be an above average detective yarn distinguished by some deep Beantown atmosphere and an impressive array of carefully modulated performances from old pros (Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman and the underrated John Ashton) and actors on the verge (Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan and Amy Ryan). Based on a middle entry from author Dennis Lehane's well-regarded Kenzie-Gennaro series, the narrative is engaging and clever enough to keep the viewer from leaping ahead to the late third-act twist. And it's then that the film's sedulously understated central dilemma suddenly ignites, turning what was just a damn good movie into a potentially great one." Fuck that "potentially" shit: this is a great movie. The concessions to Lehane's always-funky plotting are less bothersome on repeat viewing, while the final confrontation between Affleck's Kenzie and another character I'll not identify (because a lot of people have yet to see this movie) is gut-wrenchingly tense: it's an argument between right and right. Affleck got a lot of help behind the camera on his first film (most notably from DP John Toll), but the triumph is in the playing of the drama, and it's all his.
91. Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (2001, d. Alfonso Cuaron, w. Alfonso and Carlos Cuaron)
From my 2002 AICN review: "Meet Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna), or, better yet, run. Run from Julio and Tenoch before they bugger you seventeen-and-a-half ways to Sunday, for these boys, taken as a whole beast, are a wide open Pandora's Box of teenage carnality. What's worse, their sexually accommodating girlfriends have flown off to Italy on vacation, leaving them, literally, masturbating poolside at Tenoch's politically connected (re: corrupt) father's mansion, launching their young, potent seed off the diving board and into the wide, blue, olympic-sized yonder like sticky, white Greg Lougani." It's amazing to think that, prior to 2001, there was considerable doubt about Cuaron's filmmaking potential. On one hand, he'd dazzled with A LITTLE PRINCESS; but when GREAT EXPECTATIONS failed on every conceivable level save for production design, Cuaron showed warning signs of being an empty stylist. Then the guy retreats to Mexico and returns with a scrappy, soulful coming-of-age tale that plays like the '80s teen sex comedy Francois Truffaut never made. The rest of the decade worked out pretty well for Cuaron, but even when he made the dystopian movie about really long tracking shots, he couldn't top this little gem.
90. LAST DAYS (2005, w. & d. Gus Van Sant)
This spot could easily have been occupied by PARANOID PARK, but I went with the movie that spoke more directly to my silly generation. From my 2005 Collider review: "In closing out his Trilogy of Tarr, Van Sant is once again polarizing critics (about the only people who bothered with his last two films), some of whom view him as an opportunist feasting on recent human tragedies for dubious artistic nourishment. This was certainly true of Elephant, but Last Days is something else entirely – a strangely playful rumination on detachment and surrender that veers far enough away from the tabloid version of Cobain’s fate, intriguingly chronicled in Nick Broomfield’s Kurt & Courtney, that it gradually becomes clear that Van Sant is interested in capturing the gestalt of the event, not the truth. The external agonies, provided by everyone from a label exec (Kim Gordon) to a chatty yellow pages salesman (real life Yellow Pages salesman Thadeus A. Thomas), are largely irrelevant to the elliptical narrative, but they have an aesthetic value that’s critical to Van Sant’s vision. This a film that’s felt, not intellectualized."
89. ALI (2001, d. Michael Mann, w. Mann, Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, Eric Roth)
Yes, it ends with Muhammad Ali's triumph over George Foreman in Zaire; no, it is not just a retread of Leon Gast's WHEN WE WERE KINGS. And yet critics expecting a banal ol' biopic decided that's all Michael Mann's ALI was when it arrived for awards season consideration in late 2001. Actually, it was a tone poem about a man who becomes a god. I understand their confusion ("Whoa, whoa... where are the dates? And the hand-holding voiceover? And why isn't he dealing with the real fight of Ail's life: Parkinson's!?!?), but I cannot countenance the indifference to Mann's exemplary craft. The opening montage leading up to the Ali-Liston I weigh-in is a master class in visual storytelling: in about ten minutes, Mann kills off a huge chunk of exposition and countless obligatory scenes that would've taken any Oscar-happy hack an hour to get across. I guess Mann erred in expecting American audiences to grasp, in passing, the significance of Emmett Till or the sight of a black child watching his father paint a blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus Christ. That he crosscuts all of this with Sam Cooke warming up a nightclub before launching into "Bring It On Home to Me" only heightens the cinematic delirium. The feeling I get every time I start up ALI is why I go to the movies.
88. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000, d. Ang Lee, w. Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai)
The film that brought Wuxia, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh and, not for nothing, subtitles to American multiplexes. And yet what's most amazing about Ang Lee's martial arts epic is that geeks who'd been gorging on this stuff since childhood were just as captivated as viewers who'd maybe seen ENTER THE DRAGON. It's Lee's cautious, contemplative storytelling that sets the film apart from most of what had come before; at times, it feels like he's attacking the genre as David Lean might have. Downside: the clumsy appropriation of the wire-assist style (also used in THE MATRIX) by every third-rate action filmmaker in Hollywood.
87. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (2004, d. Peter Berg, w. Berg and David Aaron Cohen)
From my 2005 DVD Journal review: [Peter] Berg's Friday Night Lights isn't just a faithful-in-spirit adaptation of [Buzz] Bissinger's tome; it's a more bone-jarringly realistic depiction of the blood-and-guts nature of the sport than all the pretenders that have come before, including Oliver Stone's adrenalized Any Given Sunday. This is football in all of its unforgiving, body-sacrificing splendor; and if, rather than recruiting, it deters more young men from strapping on the pads, that might not be a bad thing, because the world Berg captures is one that puts an undue premium on athletic greatness at an age when the most of the game's combatants ought to be planning for a future beyond the field of play. Most of the pressure brought to bear on the film's young characters comes from Permian's greats of the past now eking out lives of loud, Skoal-spitting desperation. Though the denouement does its best to send the viewer out on an upbeat note, it's regret rather than inspiration that is the ultimate, subversive legacy of Friday Night Lights. For that reason, Berg's picture feels an awful lot like an American classic. Time will tell." Time has told. And while the television show (created by Berg) has surpassed it in terms of thematic depth and characterization, it cannot diminish the film's self-contained wallop. This movie says as much about American values (good and bad) as it does about football. It's in the canon.
86. THE WAYWARD CLOUD (2005, w. & d. Tsai Ming-liang)
Never seen a Tsai Ming-liang film? For the love of Benji, do not start here. After establishing himself as a patient observer of human behavior with a mild mischievous streak, this came spilling out of the Taiwanese master's noggin. Though his gift for exquisitely-framed "action" - with very little dialogue - is still in evidence here, the musical numbers and the (unsimulated) sex force the viewer to reconsider the thematic cohesiveness of Tsai's previous work. Is he just fucking with or has he lost his mind? Having not yet seen his most recent picture, FACE (which received mixed reviews at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival), I'm still unsure. I just know that it's extremely rare for a filmmaker with such an exacting aesthetic to cut loose and, in a way, pollute one's interpretations of his previous, carefully orchestrated work. It'd be like Bergman recutting THE SEVENTH SEAL to incorporate the Grim Reaper segments from BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY. And because I kinda wish that would've happened, I consider the THE WAYWARD CLOUD a rampaging, watermelon-fucking masterpiece.
85. OBSERVE AND REPORT (2009, w. & d. Jody Hill)
From my 2009 AICN review: "There's been a lot of talk about OBSERVE AND REPORT's transgressive nature, but that's only an issue if you think [Jody] Hill and [Seth] Rogen (uncredited as a co-writer, but crucial in the shaping of the screenplay) are getting off on Ronnie's bad behavior. I'd like to think they're being more subversive than transgressive - if only because I don't want to feel horrible about having enjoyed their film so thoroughly. It's hard to tell. I'm still laughing too hard to decide whether I should be ashamed with myself - not to mention whether Hill's painted a masterpiece or just said some really uncouth shit." After four viewings, I've concluded that the vagueness of Hill's intent is its saving grace. OBSERVE AND REPORT is a mean, toxic thing that both satirizes and revels in America's love of vigilante justice. Ronnie Barnhardt doesn't want to be a real cop; he wants to be Dirty Harry stamping on a gaping gunshot wound all day, every day. And that's when he's on his medication. When he's off, he'd probably be good with taking to a rooftop and firing away until a sniper's bullet makes the noises stop. Still laughing?
84. CHOPPER (w. & d. Andrew Dominik)
Eric Bana's repulsively charismatic portrayal of Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read gave the Australian actor his go-straight-to-Hollywood card. What's ensued has hopefully been a determined act of delayed gratification, which will pay off sometime next decade in a ferocious, scenery-shredding performance of Mifune-esque proportions. Failing that, we'll just give CHOPPER another spin and be satisfied that we at least got this (please skip if you've never seen the film):
"You don't much like me, do you Keith?" Even more of a surprise than Bana's subsequent predilection for quiet, brooding types was director Andrew Dominik's emergence as one of our modern widescreen masters with 2007's THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD. CHOPPER is that film's antithesis: terse, focused and funny as hell. There have been far too many "comedic" portraits of affable sociopaths, but Dominik's film distinguishes itself with its unreliable-narrator shenanigans. CHOPPER is as fun to deconstruct as it is to watch (provided you've got a high threshold for gratuitous violence).
83. CODE UNKNOWN: INCOMPLETE TALES OF SEVERAL JOURNEYS (2000, w. & d. Michael Haneke)
A film that demands to be seen twice - if only because Michael Haneke's technique is so apparent the first time around (the "narrative" unfolds via a series of long, uninterrupted takes), it occasionally overwhelms the drama. On a second viewing, you can settle in and admire the thematic complexity of Haneke's film, which begins as a withering social critique (spurred by a what appears to be an unintentionally disrespectful act) before turning into a multi-character examination of everything from xenophobia to truth in filmic storytelling. As always, Haneke does not suffer casual viewers; if you're not paying rapt attention, you're likely to miss the point entirely. This is one of the few Haneke films that doesn't leave you feeling like you've had your knuckles rapped.
82. ADAPTATION. (2002, d. Spike Jonze, w. Charlie & Donald Kaufman)
From my 2002 AICN review: "Much like BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, [Spike] Jonze & [Charlie] Kaufman refuse to play ADAPTATION as merely a comedy. From the opening moment in the restaurant, where Charlie literally sweats out unfettered praise from a producer, there’s an unbearable sense of desperation lurking beneath the morose surface – a panicked need to belong, to be loved, to adapt. It’s on this visceral level that the film connects time and again. Whether it’s Charlie’s doomed attempts at romance, Susan’s longing for adventure, or the tragedy Laroche perpetually suppresses through his mile-a-minute banter, there is, undeniably, a very human heart throbbing in the chest of this picture, which will prove crucial to its finding an audience outside of the art house. For all of Kaufman’s hand-wringing, ADAPTATION is ultimately about finding our place in this world and feeling comfortable with it. Yes, he really was saying something “conventional”, but in saying it originally and vibrantly, he’s made it seem true." The argument against ADAPTATION. is that, once you recognize the "joke" of the third act, subsequent viewings are unrewarding. I don't think the film breaks down that easily, but even you want to say it does, the complexities in the performances (particularly Chris Cooper's) offer ample compensation. Like everything else Jonze has crafted to date, this is some strong, sui generis shit.
81. DRAG ME TO HELL (2009, d. Sam Raimi, w. Sam and Ted Raimi)
My review's okay, but this excerptfrom my interview with Patton Oswalt says it better:
Patton Oswalt: ...DRAG ME TO HELL is going to become a weird, talked-about cult item down the road. Right now, all people will remember is "Oh, that movie tanked." But in a few years, people will start looking at it and going, "This movie is a ton of fun, and there's a lot of weird things [going on in it]." I've already started reading the crazy theories online about it. Have you read the one that says it's about a girl suffering from extreme anorexia, and she is slowly hallucinating and going crazy? That's what the whole movie is! And if you notice, every scene that involves food, people are either drooling on it, or when that eye pops into the harvest cake, she never eats it. She never eats anything. And at the end, she's being dragged under the train tracks and being turned into a skeleton. People are saying this is a new REPULSION. And also, the demons are always these weird shadows and silhouettes. Do you ever really see them, or is it her going apeshit?
Beaks: Wow. That's something to consider. I was too wrapped up in the fact that he was staging big, goofy Loony Tunes gags again to notice anything sneaky like that.
Oswalt: But, again, is that her hallucination? Is that what she knows of violence? Because all of her trauma came from this childhood of being this fat, goofy 4-H girl, was she turning to cartoons and snacks, and that's what she's imagining now? I don't know. If that parking garage fight doesn't get nominated for Best Fight on next year's MTV Movie Awards...
"And the winner is... Werewolves Destroy Black Guy from TWILIGHT: NEW MOON!"
80. LATE MARRIAGE (2002, w. & d. Dover Koshashvili)
From my Best of 2002 list for AICN: "Equal parts hilarious and exasperating, this Israeli import depicts the travails of Zaza (Lior Loui Ashkenazi) – a thirty-one year old Jewish man being paraded around Tel Aviv by his marriage-minded, tradition-bound parents – who’s trying to keep secret the torrid affair he’s conducting with Judith (Ronit Elkabetz), a slightly older divorcee who’s also carried over a child from her previous union. Drolly observed under the unobtrusive direction of first-time feature director Koshashvili, LATE MARRIAGE is a remarkably precise slice-of-life drama that makes no judgments on any of its many colorful characters, or the potentially stifling institution of arranged marriages. There’s conflict aplenty, but no villains; only individuals resisting, or acquiescing to a cultural practice that’s passed through countless generations. It’s a triumph of unforced naturalism, and nowhere is this more evident than in the film’s protracted sex scene that has been rightfully praised as one of the most realistic ever staged. If Koshashvili continues to capture such a searing intimacy from his actors, he is going to be a major filmmaker." What's say we settle for "noteworthy filmmaker", as Koshashvili has yet to match the excellence of his debut film? As happens to too many foreign-made pictures that fail to get widespread distribution in the U.S., this film fell into obscurity once the year-end plaudits were entered. Due to the tragic shuttering of New Yorker Films, it is now out of print. Criterion?
79. RATATOUILLE (2007, d. Brad Bird, w. Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco)
From my Best of 2007 list for CHUD: "Only Pixar (and, specifically, Brad Bird) could make a film championing the wonders of French cuisine and somehow pull in $200 million at the U.S. box office. That it would also be one of 2007's best films is less of a surprise. This was not a project that originated with Bird (the genius behind The Iron Giant and The Incredibles), but his advocacy of the exceptional in a world where average is nothing to be ashamed of sets the film apart from typical family fare. I don't know if it's possible (or even accurate), but the animation in Ratatouille appears to be the most sophisticated and audacious we've yet seen from Pixar. And any children's film that features Patton Oswalt as the lead voice deserves its place in the pantheon." I've returned to RATATOUILLE a couple of times since my initial viewing, and the Proust-inspired comeuppance of Peter O'Toole's critic knocks me flat on my keister every time. Brad Bird is one of the most skilled storytellers going, and this is easily his most sophisticated effort to date.
78. NOWHERE TO HIDE (1999/2000, d. Lee Myung-se)
Because NOWHERE TO HIDE didn't open until late 2000 in New York City, I'm including it here - especially since it's been forgotten in the U.S. by all but a handful of critics and Korean film enthusiasts. From my 2001 AICN review: "A wild melding of Hong Kong cinema, Spaghetti Western aesthetic, and the hard-nosed, if fascist, crime dramas of Don Siegel, NOWHERE TO HIDE, from Korean helmer Myung-se Lee, packs in more dizzying style per frame than any film in recent memory, while also managing to be the best meat-and-potatoes action flick since John Woo and Ringo Lam went Hollywood. By the time the film reaches its rain-drenched, railway finale, Lee has achieved the operatic tone of a Sergio Leone western (the soundtrack even samples the "Death Rattle" from Morricone’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST score.) It’s the final, thrilling moment in a movie filled with visceral charges unlike even the most jaded action film junkie has ever experienced. For a film that borrows from so many disparate sources, it’s a credit to the singularly talented Lee that he has created a true original through synthesis." The Wachowskis liked NOWHERE TO HIDE so much, they jacked that rain-drenched finale for MATRIX REVOLUTIONS. Of course, as Mike D'Angelo pointed out in this must-read A.V. Club essay, it's not even the most impressive sequence in the film. Lionsgate still owns the U.S. distribution rights to NOWHERE TO HIDE, and they're evidently content with the pan-and-scanned 1.33:1 DVD release. How 'bout throwing some of that SAW money into doing right by a real movie, folks?
77. I HEART HUCKABEES (2004, w. & d. David O. Russell)
Jason Schwartzman hires a couple of "existential detectives" (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) to sift through the emptiness of his unrewarding life. When their findings prove unsatisfactory, he delves into the nihilistic teachings of Isabelle Huppert - who makes nothingness incredibly alluring. O. Russell throws all manner of contradictory notions at the audience, but just when it looks like the film is going to collapse into an entertainingly incomprehensible heap, it hits upon a miraculous moment of clarity. Judging from everything that's been written about I HEART HUCKABEES, it sounds like O. Russell treated the making of the film as therapy. He got away with it. Do not follow his example. Jon Brion's soundtrack was composed and recorded during the most fertile creative period in his career (thus far), and contained this perfect little pop song:
76. MIAMI VICE (2006, w. & d. Michael Mann)
From my lost-to-the-void 2006 Collider review: "MIAMI VICE bypasses any semblance of setup in favor of kicking off mid-investigation in a trendy South Beach club throbbing to Jay Z's "Encore". The effect is invigorating and like nothing else seen on screen this year: suddenly, your head's bobbing, your senses are alert, and you're right there in the sweaty mass of hip, grinding humanity as this decade's Crockett and Tubbs scan the crowd for their suspect." And then: "The life the job denies, and the sorrow it engenders: this is the price Crockett and Tubbs pay for the illusion of order. There's nothing comforting or simple about it." Mann fouled up by throwing a boat race and other junk into a "Director's Cut" DVD. As is too often the case with Mann, he second-guessed his instincts when he was spot-on the first time. He's a rhythm director; if he deviates from the flow, he throws the whole thing off. The theatrical cut of MIAMI VICE performs like a fine-tuned Ferrari.
For numbers seventy-five to fifty-one, click here. Faithfully submitted, Mr. Beaks
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Adaptation and Ratattouille. Can't wait to see Transformers at the top 10.
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Nice list apart from that clunking turkey. And I would have put Adaptation higher. But nice list anyways....... :)
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..but you knew that, right?
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Had no idea. Time to scrap the article.
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A list that begins with slighting not only Spielberg, but Scorsese as well by saying that they're not making quality anymore and have somehow "shrunk away", that goes on to name Talladega Nights AND Observe and Report as the some of the best films of the decade, a full year before the decade is even over.
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Everybody is doing their "of the decade stuff." Just make sure you're saying the decade that began with "200" and we're good. Speaking of which, people should do 200 lists, not 100, sort of "my 200 for the '200' years"
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Is this a 'burned by Crystal Skull' thing? He's had his misfires but I couldn't honestly accuse a guy who could put out as varied and ambitious a collection of films as AI, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, War of the Worlds and Munich in such rapid succession as someone 'shrinking from the challenge', even if I don't think all those movies are entirely successful. By the way, slight typo in there (I assume): Piano Teacher came out in 2002, not 2009.
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Definitely looking forward to the next installment. I'm so glad you put BRING IT ON in there, i thought it was just me but I have seen it about 20 times now!
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Did you not read the first part of the article?!
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Best Movie Almost Redeemed By Big Ol' Melonball Titties.Actually, that dubious honor might go to "Mulholland Drive". I liked it the one & only time I saw it, but have yet to understand why it's held in such high esteem.
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We group decades by their number, not by counting up the years in tens starting from the year one. 1930 wasn't the final year of the 20's.
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That's pretty much it. I'll have more to say about Spielberg in the next article.
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No, not the list, but my exposure to movies. I've seen only 4 of the 25 movies listed here - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Ratatouille, Adaptation and I Heart Huckabees. While I liked Adaptation and I Heart Huckabees, I didn't much care for Ratatouille and I hated Crouching Tiger... Still, an interesting list. I'm looking forward to the next 75.
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70's, 80's, 90's...100's. Aughts, Aughties, Naughties, whatever, sounds annoying.
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How can I put this without sounding like a troll... you have pretty awful taste in movies Beaks!
There's some real shitters in that list!
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It's an inconsequential trifle - not an especially good film, but the geek world is the only place where it hold much significance. I don't think it's all that representitive of recent trends in Speilberg's filmmaking (which often have their own flaws, but not neccessarily the same ones as Indy IV), and I'll be disappointed if Beak's criticisms don't cut far deeper than that one film.
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I'm sure I'd be hard pushed to think of a 100 though, for this decade.
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This is a list which I will disagree with repeatedly. So be it...
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The decade ends this year... count the years starting in 2000 - there's 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 - that equals 10 years.... I suppose you were also one of those people who also said that the new millennium didn't start until 2001 though, huh?
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Drag Me To Hell was one of the worst movies of the year, not funny or scary, an absolute disgrace of a movie.
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was easily one of the very best films of the decade. Kinsey was fun. And I hearted I Heart Huckabees even if I didn't completely get it. Now I am definitely going to check out The Ice Harvest which is what I love about a list like this. So many great films that I saw that have already slipped from memory and so many that I never got to check out.
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what on earth were you thinking, including Drag Me To Hell ?
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The Ice Harvest is amazing, if you are in any way a fan of Cusack or Thornton, buy the film. It deserves to be on the list, unlike a few others, specifically one I have already mentioned.
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I don't know if it necessarily qualifies as one of the best 100 films of the last ten years- but the film has a neat noirish feel. And Oliver Platt... fuck is that guy good. Hail to the King! If READY TO RUMBLE makes the list, I'll stop my bitching entirely.
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Just horrible.
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Buwahahahahah.
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which was Bring it On
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The rest should be removed from the top 100, i mean he included Bring It On???? WTF.......
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I guess people do this when they're perverts looking for justification to cheat on their wives or girlfriends and do who-knows-what in the process. Get a clue. Review the film and stop bogging everyone down with your ill-informed politics and hypocritical social commentary.
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"The list is shite." Sir Ben Kingsley.
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and it doesn't help that most of these picks are trash beyond any form of redemption.
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....since you tore Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the Christal Skull a new asshole.AVATAR has A LOT more CGI than Chrystal Skull. A LOT MORE!
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Drag me to Hell better than Adaptation? Oh My!
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Piano Teacher: "sexually aberrant behavior"
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Miami Vice better than Adaptation? Ohhhh My!
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Kudos Mr. Beaks, it's about time someone here sacked up with a 'best of the decade' list. Hairy et. al. - It would behoove you to man up like Mr. Beaks here and come up with your own lists. We (the talkbackers) like to read them, we don't care if our personal favorites don't make your lists. We enjoy reading about the films that you thought were important and the reasons why you enjoyed them; either follow Mr. Beaks lead or give him a nice X-mas bonus if you don't make the same effort. Or you could just write another review for New Moon because we all loved reading those...
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This looks like it's possibly going to be the most interesting, and truthful, films of the decade list made. I can't do lists, myself. I either completely blank movies which, in retrospect, I'd kick myself for not including, or I shift my opinion around so much that from one day to the next it'd seem like a different list. This, however, is both personal and well thought out; not the usual critical circle-jerk that such lists tend to be. Critics repeat the same few titles over and over again like a mantra, until when you finally sit down to compile something like this, they're the only ones that enter your head. Fuck it, I'd put Bring it On in my list, too! (I've gotta say, I'm not a Ferrell fan, though).
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This sure is one boring list)
"Gone Baby Gone", "Crouching Tiger", "Adaptation" - are worthy, other films are pure shite!
Btw, as for Drag Me To Hell - I'm one of the guys who started that crazy theory about hallucinations. I'm even more proud of it now and I can still prove it! Bad flick though. -
Epic fail.
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Scrolling left and right to read this fucking article. Is that first picture from Kangaroo Jack?
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Was anyone else bored as fuck in the theatre when watching Crouching Tiger. Its like Speilbergs 10 hour long happy endings except in Chinese and people dont know if its good or not until they are told by their local newspaper and poster ads.
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List.
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Bring me the dicks of 100 jews so I may lick them.
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Saw it for the first time the other day. I thought it was a bit of a yawner. Anyway, what didn't work for me the most is that the main character was overall a really nice person. She denied an extension on a loan that was already several months past due. So what? She was just doing her job. She didn't have any malicious intent.
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Because after District 9, nothing else fucking matters.
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Beeks, are you trying to impress some lame art chick that thinks Donnie Darko is the most amazing movie they've ever seen? And better yet did you see The Hammer?
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And the list of movies he still needs to see this year, the one in that list that has the best chance of making it on this list is probably, ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL.
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Dec 02, 2009 8:38:54 AM CST
Beaks has 75 more chance to prove to me....
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
that he knows anything about quality movies. I mean seriously; of all the movies released globally across the last nine years and you think BRING IT ON and SNOOZE BABY SNOOZE deserve to take two spaces in the the top 100? They say one man's meat in another man's poison but you must love the taste of poison Beaks.
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Yeah that was kind of my problem with Drag Me To Hell. The the thing she did was not that bad. She wasn't overly mean until the old lady started acting crazy. I always hate it when whichs just think because they are witches can do whatever they want, like in Hocus Pocus.
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Can this not be reformatted to make it readable?
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Pure Mann crime fun. Totally engrossing. I loved the story, the cinematography, the bad ass female cops and the white supremacist bad guys. I even liked Colin Farrell's mumbling Sonny. Admitedly, it helps if you enjoy Mann's style. I've dug his shit since Thief but I had no use for Ali. Will Smith was a deal breaker there.
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J/K but 500 Days better be in ur top 2 buddy!
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the one time i wanted to do reeeeally wrong and naughty things to Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Snooze Baby Snooze? Dude that's a prime example of what a great movie ought to be. I don't understand you. I've never understood you!!!
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Star Hump, totally agree dude. Not only would ALI not be in my best of the decade, it would be in my most disappointing of the decade. Pretentious, boring, meandering mess of a movie.
Plus for a site that's supposed to be a champion of 'cool' genre flicks there's none to be seen in Beak's list. Mainly a bunch of biopics and dramas. Surely we ought to see at least a couple of unpolished genre gems in the 75-100 category like TAKEN, THE HOST, RAMBO, OUTLANDER, SWEENEY TODD, SEXY BEAST, etc...? -
Dec 02, 2009 9:15:52 AM CST
And Spielberg is the greatest director of the decade by FAR
by proman1984
A.I., Minority Report and Munich are all in my top 10 (top 5 even of the decade). The guy is not only not shriking he's constantly growing and you sir are a fool for insulting him.
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Are completely successful with no compromises.
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If Danny Trejo had played Castillo it would have been a perfect adaption. No offense to the black guy but he belongs in a club being killed by Tom Cruise.
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Dec 02, 2009 9:19:34 AM CST
Seriously though what the fuck does that sentence even mean?
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Shrunk from what challenge? You occuse the ONE GUY who still shoots on film of adapting "limiting technology" over one flick out NEXT decade you haven't even seen? Or are you implying that Munich, CMIYC are somehow works of a shrunk direcotor? Either way, you are a fool!
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Dec 02, 2009 9:21:15 AM CST
HEY BEAKS - not that we aren't grateful for your continuing effo
by mynamesdan
but this site has a lot of subscribers with a lot of opinions.
The decade doesn't end for another year so that should give you the time to organise an AICN reader's poll on the best 100 films of the last ten years.
I have to say i totally disagree with a lot of your choices but it's interesting to read your articles on the films anyway- so why don't you let us choose the films and then you'll have to find the good in them - even if you don't like them...
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Did you hear that the same team from Sexy Beast have their new one coming out? Called 44 inch Chest. Same director and writer and stars Winstone and McShane again. One to watch, I think!
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Of course we're going to see dramas and biopics and art-house fare.
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Yes, the decade doesn't end until the end of next year, but at the very least he ought to have 10 years coverage in order to save face.
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And I rather enjoyed Drag Me To Hell.
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an interesting list, but, smacks of "oooh I dare to be different". Possibly not, possibly these are your true choices, but including Observe and Report and Talladega Nights is a huge misstep, there's no way anyone can claim either movie has merit and still be credible. And Gone, Baby Gone is not in the top 20? Whaaa???
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I will agree with you, Spielberg is a complete legend, I really liked Crystal Skull. Spielberg doesnt get half the respect he deserves, and Munich is fucking awesome.
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Sunshine (2007)
Millions (2004)
28 Days Later... (2002)
Alien Love Triangle (2002)
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (2001) (TV) (actually saw this really good)
Strumpet (2001) (TV)
The Beach (2000/I)
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A century really represents "100 years", and since there was no "year zero", we start to count 100 years from 1 to 100, not 0 to 99 - although this is retroactive counting, since the julian and later gregorian calendars did not exist back then. BUT a decade, although meaning "ten years", had a DIFFERENT meaning on some cultures, specially on the XX century, when the 40s, 60s and 70s became words to represent a generation. Hence, the 2000s (as I call it) ends this month. End of case.
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Jonathan Glazer directed Sexy Beast... he does not direct 44 Inch Chest. same writing team though.
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I tured it off after 10 mins, I had absolutely no desire to watch it.
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Wes Anderson. His visual style has been adopted by countless other films, commercials, and his offbeat, comically lovable characters working through their family issues and personal quirks have been one of the standard film/TV motifs this decade with "Little Miss Sunshine", "Juno", "Napoleon Dynamite", "Arrested Development", "Modern Family", etc.
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implies that there were only 100 films released in that decade
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Col Tigh, thanks dude. I'll look out for that film too.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:05:03 AM CST
My top twenty of the decade would include Requiem for a Dream...
by chakraborty
...Blow, The Prestige, District 9, There Will Be Blood, Adaptation, and possibly Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
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...if you're such a big fan of Bring It On, I have some footage from the filming of Step Up 3 in a park in NYC if you want it. I don't think you'd want to post it here, but you could put it on your personal blog or just watch it for your own enjoyment...it's about on par with Bring It On...seeing how you're a fan and all.
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Beaks seems more suited for a place like AVClub where they're more about "I know of these things that you've never heard of" and less about the celebration of cool.
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Beaks seems more suited for a place like AVClub where they're more about "I know of these things that you've never heard of" and less about the celebration of cool.
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I predict.
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I predict.
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seriously are we all expected to have 4 foot wide monitors or something...do it right or don't bother doing it at allAs for you list, i will hold judgment until you are done but so far it seems like alot of great movies are really low up on your list, Ratatouille should be much higher (and if you leave on pixar movie from this decade off of the list then you sir are retarded). Talledega nights is a great comedy but i hope to see Anchorman break the top 50. Aldo your inclusion of Miami vice is a very sad sings of what to expect on the rest of the list, that movie doesn't even deserve to be on the best million of the century movie list
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I look forward to the next part of this list.
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...I prefer groups of more favorites, less favorites, and a shit pile...and maybe a handful of perfect movies.
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It's about this latina woman who goes on a road trip with some young dudes and ends up fucking both of them. Niiiice. Then they both end their friendship over her. It stars those two Mexican actors...you know...those two.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:22:59 AM CST
...opening the list with BRING IT ON...those are some giant...
by flickapoo
...balls. Mr. Beaks must cart those babies around in a wheelbarrow.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:24:26 AM CST
Caurons best movie is prisoner of azkaban
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
You know this to be true
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...comes with a giant pair of tits. Bitch tits.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:27:24 AM CST
I WONDER WHERE LESBIAN HOMEWORK SESSION PLACES IN THIS LIST
by bringingsexyback
Hmmm.
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Spike Lee's '25th Hour' will hopefully be remembered as one of the best films of the decade. As the first movie to be fully realized in a post-9/11 the world, it's Lee's best work since 1992's 'Malcolm X' and just a tour de force of great performances from Ed Norton, Barry Pepper and Philip Seymour Hoffman. And it never feels like a gimmick or a cheap trick.
This film (the novel was written before 9/11) simply needed to take place after the towers went down. It is a New York story and the filmmakers would have been remiss not to acknowledge the attacks. And it works to their advantage. The tone Lee creates and the idea of a city trying to move on from tragedy, unsure if they can, is mirrored beautifully by convicted drug dealer Monty Brogan's (Edward Norton) struggle to correct the relationships in his life the day before he is sent off to jail for seven years. Told over the course of a day, it is just a beautiful movie with three remarkable scenes (The 'Fuck You' scene, The Ground Zero Scene, and Monty's Last Temptation of Another Life Montage at the end). There has not been a movie in the past decade that I have gone back to more and appreciated something new each time. The nuances in this film, the detail in the performances are so specific, are a testament to the skill and craft of Lee. For that reason it is one of my favorite films of the decade. -
Fuck.
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That fucking game is driving me up the wall. I'm in Venice now with the wolves.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:33:32 AM CST
MY TOP 100 HOTTEST WOMEN ON THE PLANET LIST ENDS WITH
by bringingsexyback
Zooey Deschanel.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:37:51 AM CST
I'M NOT GAY. BUT IF I WERE TO HAVE A TOP 100 HOTTEST MEN LIST
by bringingsexyback
You bet your sweet ass Ryan Reynolds would fill all 100 slots. And then some.
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Youporn.com. Aintitcool places #2.
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Monica Bellucci and Selma Hayek.
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Fix it.
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...of the decade:Hmm, who's number 100...the BRING IT ON of talkbackers...?Never mind.
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Can't argue with that.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:49:34 AM CST
IF JON HAMM HAD ROCKIN' ABS AND A SWEET MOUTH LIKE RYAN
by bringingsexyback
He can be on my list.
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If there were only 100 talkbackers.
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there has been some crazy people come through here...who would place number 1...let the voting begin
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Dec 02, 2009 10:55:35 AM CST
I THINK ASIMOVLIVES OR MCMVXVII ARE IN A TIGHT RACE FOR #1
by bringingsexyback
One is known for the briefest of brevities.
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JettL I think you'd make it in, at 93 would be fitting. That'd make you The Squid And The Whale of tb'ers (kinda suits with your fisherman tales).
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What happened to Danny_Glovers_Dick_Blood? Havent seen him around in a while now.
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I think I'd have to go with DannyGloversDickBlood as number 1, for being one of the most divisive Talkbackers ever, for not being afraid to reveal his often contradictory opinions, and for being the only Talkbacker in history to get mentioned on mainstream tv AND in a DVD commentary. Plus, he was the first talkbacker, I believe, to inadvertently start the Clone Wars where people began to create TB names extremely similar to his, which fooled a lot of people into thinking the imitator's comments belonged to the real deal. This has now happened with AsimovLives and some others I believe.
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Yes, he spawned a nation of imposters. Truly another legend.
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www.aibn.com
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how about 25. And yes this is the end of the decade. 2000 was zero.
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He quit. Like a boss. Er, I mean, PROFESSIONAL.
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Sure he interviewed pedophiles to base some of his studies about what 'normal' sexuality was and didn't report it to anybody. But that of course makes him a hero to the segment of the population that cheers on this open sewer of a society we live in.
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Dec 02, 2009 11:00:18 AM CST
...JettL93, you just disqualified yourself from any list...
by flickapoo
...by repeating my post...but without the scintillating humor or roguish good looks.Wait, nobody knows about my roguish good looks...never mind.
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some how he provided (horse shit) data that infants have numerous orgasms. Hooray liberals.
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...the correct choice? You could certainly make a strong case for him. Pulling a Kaiser Soze at the top of his game was pretty fucking cool too.
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Was convincing the Talkback world he didn't exist. And like that *blows into hand*, HE'S GONE.
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Remember when i had yoyu all eating out of my hand and you all debated on whether i was real or not...oh yeah My batman posts were even brought up at batman-on-film, and that guy never posts rumours...i'm a legend in my own rightAlso perhaps myself and DG dick blood share some similarities...anyone notice how he dissapeared and i showed up?
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Those infant orgasms were produced by massage using the tips of AK-47's and bibles.
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...muddy the waters a bit.
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is fucking awesome and anyone thinks otherwise is a fucking retard.
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only include foreign films that have a lot of hardcord sex in it (hardcore by American movie standards).
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No one of any real substance around here anyway.
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JettL I noticed how TITBAG disappeared and you showed up.
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And who was that guy who claimed to be a police officer that knew where we lived and would come kick our asses and rape our anuses?
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1-100: Doc Pazuzu.
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Dec 02, 2009 11:15:51 AM CST
(Ironically that's the same list as the bottom 100)
by seppukudkurosawa
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i've had many names and continue to have many name, i'm also on file sharing sites under the name AXXO:But seriously rmember when you all though Indy 4 was going to be called "Indiana jones and the Pharoah's crown"...just because i said it was, that little rumour even made it to chud, coming soon and entertainment weekly if i'mnot mistaken....long live the Legend
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...who show up out of the blue, troll a particular talkback for seventy five hours straight on a non-drowsy Sudafed bender and then disappear.I have a feeling a lot of them are the same person.
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Whoever believed that shit? Or more importantly, who remembers that?
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Dioxholster is crazy like that too. But only if its a Stargate tb.
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And no, I'm not him. My least favorite of the gimmicky talkbackers is/was that Fred's_Balls_in_a Mason Jar, who thinks it's funny to refer to himself in the 3rd person. He's about as funny as having to babysit someone's mentally handicapped son for hours on end.
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Reminds me of Bob Dole.
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Really? That movie was a piece of shit. Nobody could possibly enjoy that steaming pile without having to try VERY fucking hard to do so. Fuckin' PRETENSE.
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...fake Middle Easternish, camel-hair shirt wearing, locust eating, prophet of doom had a decent run for a couple of days..."larat" or something like that.I can never remember the names because they don't stick around...
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...every once and a while someone really inspired comes along. That telemarketer person posted stream of consciousness poetry type stuff for an entire night...
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Dec 02, 2009 11:28:00 AM CST
telemarketer...the profoundly depressed Scriptgirl talkbacker
by chakraborty
Yeah, I remember him. He needed a girlfriend or a visit with Dr. Kevorkian.
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...he was probably just fucking around...but still...
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...who were banned because of the ego-trips of a certain TV-critic...
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...this first installments of 25 movies isn't all that interesting anyway...
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Dec 02, 2009 11:41:34 AM CST
My top ten list of this year's Best and Worst TB'ers
by dirk_the_amoeba
1) DGDB - Funny. Insightful. Divisive. Much missed. Possibly Insane.
2) Asimovlives - Unintentionally funny. Divisive. Will not be missed by goats. Definitely Insane.
3) CarlThor-Whateverthe fuckhisnameisnow - Insane. Insane. Divisive. Should be locked because-he-is-a-goat-stroking Pedophile, and also certifiably Insane.
4)Lockesbrokedickhandleg - Unfunny. Untalented. Insane, but relentless shut-in with nothing better to do but be annoying.
5) DocPazzuzu- Relentless troll hunter, with an almost encyclopedic recall of every post and a damn near stalkerish attitude towards bridge-dwellers.
6) Media Messiah - Certifiably nuts. The word insane does not do him justice. The term 'Tin-foil hat wearer' was invented for him. He owns the copyright on it. His picture is proudly next to the definition of 'loony' in Merriams. 7) Conspiracy - The greatest short story writer on AICN today. A must read.
8)Motoko - Just because we will find out soon enough if our eyeballs will be indulging in carnal activities.
9) Toadkillerdog - Inteliigent. Funny. Knowledgeable. The best flame war fighter on AICN. 10) BringingSexyback - Relentless. Funny. Either is an institution or should be in one.
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why can't you people just understand that i prefer a cock in my mouth over anything else, plus me speeels so grat that you all dan't think i'm a troller
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Dec 02, 2009 11:48:05 AM CST
Top 100 Worst talkbackers with Jettl793 topping the list
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
I think that's his name anyway. Gabriel gray is up there too.
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Kirsten Dunst. After all the seriousness and then boom there she was it was like a great punchline. Not that there's anything wrong with that as #100. It was just funny in context. I'm ashamed to admit, but not really, that I haven't seen 13 of those movies. Three of them I attempted and then turned off or got distracted and never went back. The Piano Teacher is a good one though, and I probably would have forgotten about it myself. I couldn't do a top 100 of the decade I don't think. Maybe I'll attempt a top 50 one day and post it for everyone's enjoyment. :D
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You've gotta be insane somehow. Got it.
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We all know that Avatar will take top honors in a couple of weeks, so at least wait until the decade is out, eh?Seriously, though (not that I'm entirely joking about the above), this list simply illustrates what a pathetic decade for film the 00's has been. Miami Vice? Ugh...All hail Avatar; it is the true marker of the start of cinema's second full century!!
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Or those who were banned bc they rightfully mocked Scriptgirl?
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The only reason why Fred did not make the list as one of the best is because I have not seen much of him this year. But he is the hands down funniest and nicest Tb'er I have ever seen on these boards.
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Yup.
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i always have a goot thing to sai, and my grawmmer is always the best when I type my thouts out for you 2 red, ..... smiles
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Dirk, great list dude, the commentary is spot on!
I'd like to see the next ten - pls include Continentalop (his knowledge of film going right back through the decades is incredible, and a cool guy to boot) and Stuntcock Mike (happy to play second fiddle to Dickblood but his dedication to big butts and big tits make him a legend in his own lunchtime). -
He really disappointed me. Because he starts off the decade with AI which I thought was brilliant, fuck everyone else. And right smack in the middle of the decade he pretty much perfected moviemaking with Munich. And yet he makes a goddamn remake with War of the Worlds. Who needed that shit? And Minority Report was a half a retread of Akira as far as I'm concerned. So I was disappointed in him BEFORE Crystal Skull was even the beginning of a bad idea. And then what does he decide to do? Fuckin' Tintin? Give me a fuckin' break.
Here you have a man that can make any movie he wants. ANY MOVIE HE WANTS. And he chooses to fill his slate with garbage instead of plucking some awesome script out of the ether and giving us the brilliance he's capable of. Sorry dudes, but that hurts my damn feelings. -
The Bottom 10 Talkbackers are: 1)Asimovlives- useless, unfunny, talentless, obsessed, clueless goat molesting cunt. The reason he's far and away number one is that he can't be arsed to use a spellcheck and as result writes in drivel.2)Zfisk- frightening anti-semite 3)Animal Structure (need I say more) 4)Braffed/glovedone/ eggsalad- whatever else the cunt calls himself 5)Wanahahahara- threatening violence on TB= automatic fail 6)Gabriel Grey- persistent TB crashing twat 7)Harry- because AICN is now circling the drain 8)Media Messiah- dude is clearly in need of some meds 9)Chhhhhrissssssm- frighteningly republican but completely clueless10)Coughlin's Laws- moronic neo-fascist twat with a boner for palin that doesn't know what a casualty is.
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Most unfunny film I've ever seen.
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Let's not knock it until we see some footage.
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Any changian around + Continentalop, the Aintitbale crew, MNG and DocPazuzu. Relentless troll crushing monoliths all of them. The TB'er most deserving of number one is easily DGDB- he may have dubious taste, but he's the only one to be directly quoted in commentary and on TV and if he wasn't so good then why are all those talentless twats cloning him. Do not debate me on this.
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off that list Dirk. I fear for you.
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Those too. Although that didn't happen to anyone I know. (Not saying it didn't happen. Just that I can't remember any names.)
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dude's a genius.
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http://tinyurl.com/yeduj5a
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Is that everyone's a twat.
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Back to the list that beaks inspired. A few nearly made my top 20, most are complete fucking wank. Bring it on, really? Miami VIce? Talledaga Nights? What the fuck.
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i should be in all the top 10s, because iw rite so many scripts and am in no way a presty troller
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But they are all twats. Here's my bottom 10 films for the decade: http://tinyurl.com/ybfv39m I used the word cunt in nearly every synopsis. This makes me proud
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He did threaten you directly after all.
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They all have pedigree, whereas you are a pathetic little attention seeking toolbox. I do give you kudos for the C-No bit the other week though. That was funny
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not a talkbacker. But he is number one on "shittest thing on AICN ever"
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so I thought MiraPuke deserved to as well. He did sort of breakdown too with Quint, was it?
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and his shit taste, laziness, fatness, countless articles schilling crap that is neither cool nor geeky, so I have to include him somewhere.
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is not frequented by Jarv anymore"
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... Jar Jar Abrams' Star-Trek-In-Dreams-Only in that list and at the Top 10? Kissing up to his real boss, that's what.
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K-i-s-s-i-n-gi wiash
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Total boss kissage!!
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along with Shitgirl lasting a year, Yoko's music column, GONE, the lack of regular twitch, Star Trek pushing, Twilight, and other things.
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http://tinyurl.com/yeduj5a Safe for work, and just for you.
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I've been posting under this nick since '04...no shit...
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and I've been here since turn of the century *Goes for a cry*
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The Dark Lord 2for2true: SHITHEELS!
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Your preamble was nearly unreadable. The gibberish you strung together in a vain attempt to form cohesive sentences is a joke, much like this list.
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Fucking Bring it on. What a joke.
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Or, D.Vader at least. Till I got fucking blocked by the Powers that Be for no fucking reason at all.
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He is more. Much more.
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Come on now, who made it.
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what was his name..i wonder if he ever showed up again as a different name, i personally liked the guy, he was funny and awesome
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I'm outta here. See you in the next list or if they ever bother getting Twitch back on form. If not, see any changian at Moonwolves. Asimov- you can fuck off and choke on a goat cock you talentless spunk bubble.
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Where one of the AICN editors subtly chastised other movie sites for pushing Twilight stories only for the sake of bumping up their traffic. I wanted to cry FUCKING HYPOCRITE but I had been banned. Er blocked. Or what the fuck ever.
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Before I go- It wasn't me- it was Barfy.
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Hypocrites. Shit, even 2 years ago this site was worth something, now it's down to substandard shit and blatant goatfucker hit bait on nerd trek. Pathetic
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Anyone who self nominates for a "best of" list is automatically disqualified.
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was great. Last Day not so much.
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Just read your list and just wanted to say THANK YOU for calling out Funny Games. Jeeeessssssuuuussssss Christ, how that movie got made TWICE is beyond me.
The only thing I disagree w/ you on is Inland Empire. Maybe I just like Lynch movies, but it does make sense if you are willing to watch it a couple times and maybe do some research. You are right about one thing tho, it is like putting your brain in a blender, haha. -
Always funny. Always yelling.
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and on that note- My cigarette is now rolled so I'm off to the pub.
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in the Top 50. MIAMI VICE?! WHAT A TOTAL POS!!!
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11) IndustryKiller - Insightful. Sarcastic. Occasionally an under the bridge-dwelling and contrarian.
12) Lost Jarv - Very funny, very British and totally relentless killer of Portuguese goat strokers.
13) Continentalop - Insightful. Proud Skank-ho lover, and perhaps the most knowledgeable about film noir on AICN.
14) DVader - Long-Timer. Knowledgable, and hard-working film maker who will one day proudly use the casting couch on Megan Fox II.
15)ThusSpakeSpyMunk - Hypocritcal, homosexualist troll, who says one thing, then contradicts him/herself in the very next post. 16) Cobra-kai - Invented new way of attracting attention with the subject-less post that is now all the rage. His Dojo also has the best parties with lots of skank. 17) JeTTl93 - Insane. But found his 8 1/2 minutes of fame by pretending to be the writer/caterer/dog-walker/piss-bucket-boy/hand-job giver of every film in hollywood for the past ten years -and some people fell for it. 18) Subtitles_Off -Either an insomniac or unemployed or both. But he is a relentless and at times pointless 24-hour a day poster who only lives to see a Nolan TB reach 10,000 posts. 19) NerdRageRetard - Super Troll. Holds the distinction of never even once being funny even after one thousand posts in the same TB. Even a retarded chimp with palsey no hands could at least be funny once in a thousand posts. 20)SouthAfricanGuy - Relentless, some say chlorophyll, defender of the as yet unseen Avatar. rarely appears outside of an Avatar TB -
I FUCKING LOVE THAT FILM. The trailer park scene... unbelievable.
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related threads, with a passion of utter disdain towards Mr. Jackson.
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... in 2010. All decades start at the "1" ending year. An "intellectual" such as yourself should certainly had to know that! It's excusable that the dirty unwashed hoi poloi such as myself might miss such knowledge, it's to be expected, but not from the intellectual powerhouse that is Mr Beaks, he who is so intellectually knowledgable he can bring Samuel Breckett to a Bad Boys 2 review. I'm actually suprised the intellectual Mr Beaks continues the common man fallacy of ending the decades in the "9" ending years. I expected from knowldge form such an intellectual as yourself, Mr Beaks. Disapointing!
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Y'all just made my Top 2.
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Were you just sifting through the $3 bin at Walmart and decided to list what you pulled out?
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for films that have people of different age groups fucking does not make Beaks an "intellectual".
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Come on now. Let's not take entry 100 too seriously.
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"100. BRING IT ON... I'm not joking." - Beaks
I'll pay to have this inscribed on your headstone someday Beaks. Just Bill me in 30-40 years. -
The smartest. The most beautiful. The most earth-shakingly awesome TB'er that AICN has ever seen -with the finest donkey on planet earth!
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is the bassist/one of 3 guitarists for Sonic Youth. SY joined DGC in 89 and got A&R privliges to basically sign bands they felt were worthwhile. They were never executives at DGC. They also own their own small labels these days, so maybe technically.
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Dec 02, 2009 1:18:19 PM CST
Oh man the fires are gonna burn at the end of this list
by industrykiller!
But so far a pretty interesting list all around. A solid mix of well intentioned picks I would say. I think the jury is gonna be out on this one until we get to the nitty gritty at the end, THAT'S where the real pain is gonna come and personally I can't wait for the debates in the talkback, that's gonna be a lot of fun. SO far there is only one film (and i haven't seen nearly all of those) that I don't think deserves to be on there and that's Last Days. A film shamelessly about Kurt Cobain walking around int he woods and eating cereal. I could see how in theory that verite fly-on-the-wall style might seem interesting, but as far as I'm concerned if you are offering literally ZERO insight into an incredibly famous genius' (no I don't want to debate whether he was a genius or not)life and you still make the film about that person then it's a bit exploitative. I don't think thats what Van Sant meant, but I do think his intentions were masturbatory, he seems almost painfully uninterested in Kurt Cobain as a man in favor of Cobain as subject. And I remember in interviews at the time he denied that it was even necessarily based on Cobain. I mean come the fuck on, you can think we're stupid but at least try pretend not to.
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Top 10 Worst: 10)Lockesbrokenleg – Useless as tits on a bull. Inane comments, terrible taste in movies 9)Dioxholster – Idolizes Star Gate Universe out of all proportion - and probably takes it up the Star Gate as well. 8)Spazatronik2000 – Political conspiracy spamming buffoon.7) All Dickblood clones (bar one)/acolytes – ie. James_Cameron_Strangles_A_Bitch, Prolapsed Anus, Dickcheese, etc.(too many to count or even remember) – Completely unoriginal and contributed nothing to the TB’s save angry bile.6)Laserpants – Clueless, ranting T2 hating moron; coined the infamous phrase 'We Wub Yoo Robodaddy', which quickly wore out its welcome5)Walter B – That’s right; Bruce Willis makes the list for turning up, demanding a blackbox, and pimping his shoddy PG-13 wares (Die Hard 4), before quickly skedaddling when it was question time.4)ThusSpakeSpyMunk – Deranged and schizophrenic autistic, homosexual, Native American, Twilight fellating, gore loving, non-white hating, self-loathing, ultra right wing crackpot. Entertaining, though.3)Tranny Cum Gulper – The epitome of a mindless, hating drone. Nothing to say, just tedious lists, inexplicable grammar and caps lock ranting. 2)DannyGloversDickBlood – Has his supporters, but to my mind one of the very worst people ever to set foot in the TB’s – aggressive, boorish, unfunny, knowledgeable enough to make detailed arguments but ignorant enough for those arguments to be wildly and laughably off the mark, bizarre Christian Bale obsession,vile misogynist rants. An all round superstar example of everything that’s wrong with internet forum posters.
1)Nerd Rage Retard Strength – Troll par excellence. Never once said a damn thing that was even funny, original, or insightful. A relentless spammer and a shut-in sad-case. Absolute scum of the earth. Should have been forced to slide naked down a rusty razor blade into a giant vat of bleach and vinegar. Zing!!Top 10 best coming right up...
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Okay, so the first year was 1 A.D., not 0 A.D. So noted in the annals of time. In practice though, we measure decades by years 0 through 9. We talk about the 80s, not the eighth decade of the 20th century from from 1981 and 1991. Everyone else does it because it's common practice and anything releasing a best of the decade next year is going to look stupid.
Also Bring It On is a pretty good movie. I was dragged to this in the theater and it had hot girls wearing cheerleader outfits in a well-crafted movie. I think maybe the "Citizen Kane" comment is a bit of hyperbole but it makes sense as a good 100. The bizarre pick here, for me, is Miami Vice. I guess I can try to drag my brain into the viewpoint that Miami Vice is a movie that could be liked but only as a clinical experiment. Better than Y Tu Mama Tambien? I just can't see it. I like crime movies, I like the actors in it (talk about mining HBO for their character actor gold, but the film is all style and no substance. I appreciate the other recent Mann movies, but Miami Vice repelled me out of the theater in a way that few movies are able to. -
World take. Starting with 10: David Yates,Chris Columbus, Ron Howard, Carlos Saldanha*, Micheal Bay, Adam Adamson, Sam Raimi, Berg, Gore Verbinski, Peter Jackson.
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Dec 02, 2009 1:24:18 PM CST
Ii would like to see Harry, et al create a Top Talkbackers List
by stabby
Now, that would be interesting. I know I would probably be on Herc's S-List.
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His 2 batman films alone put him up there, but he also made money with Insomnia, memento and the Prestige, now of course we are talking worldwide box office, because really why it's still broken down into territories and the fact that USA and canada's total overshadows the rest of the world makes no sense...did you know that Ice age 3 was one of the highest grossing films this year? no, because most people only look at it's North american Box office
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Top Ten Best (+1):
10) ABKing – His near homo-erotic enthusiasm for Sly and Arnold knows no bounds. Hilariously requests them for roles and movies that will absolutely never happen and are completely out of the bounds of all-known plausible reality (Tango and Cash 2; Commando 3!?; A prequel to Rhinestone – just kidding, he never said that). A truly passionate fan regardless.
9) AsimovLives – Don’t always agree with everything our Portuguese friend here says, but admire his relentless, dogged ability to attack anything he dislikes and stand by his opinions, even if his obsession with ‘Jar Jar Abrams’ and ‘STINO’ gets a bit wearying at times.
8)Doc Pazuzu/Mr. Nice Gaius – These two seem to share similar personalities – expert troll hunters and not shy in expressing their dislike of ‘unworthy’ posters.
7)Gabriel Gray – Probably shouldn’t be on the list, his spamming nearly ruined the site, but really, his relentless throttling of the hapless and completely helpless Nerd Rage was a treat to watch.
6) Dickblo0d Zero - Didn’t do much, but gets a place for disgracing and making a mockery of that puffed-up self-important clown, the original Danny Dickhead.
5)Media Messiah - Crazy as a shit-house rat, and all the more entertaining for it.
4)TehCreepyThinMan/CarlThomMark – Persistent commitment to coming back after multiple bannings. Legendary rants about emotionally crippled women, working in the burger bar, attacking Don Murphy, and other hilarity. Also highly entertaining.
3)Kwisatzhaderach – All round straight shooter.
2)Motoko Kusanagi - A true prophet and a sage. Perceived from the off Avatar’s magical, eyeball ravishing qualities (soon to be decisively proven), and wasn’t reticent about proclaiming it.
1)Southafricanguy- Like Kwisatzhaderach, an all round decent fellow, and capable of intelligent, informed discussion, which should be the idealized model for decorum around these parts (oh, if only).
Honorary Mention - +1)Sly Stallone – Technically not a Talkbacker (unlike his polar negative colleague, Brucie W, he didn’t directly participate in the TB threads), but I didn’t want to play favourites and nominate someone as the best talkbacker ever, so Sly gets this place for his awesome Q & A sessions (the best thing to appear on AICN in years), and his seemingly genuine dialogue with the fanbase- hell, he even removed 50 Cent from The Expendables by request. Hats off, sir.
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I pray for the day when the world finally comes to terms with the fact that Gus Van Sant is a boring douchebag.
The man remade Psycho. Shot for shot... oh, but he's a genius because he had Norman Bates jerk off and gave Lila Crane a fucking walkman.
Let us also never forget the utterly brainless suck-fest that was Elephant... my #1 all time worst movie ever made, and I've literally seen every single episode of MST3K and 3,000 Miles To Graceland.
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Thats all taken into account, if you actually read my post. And look up who Carlos Saldanha is.
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Turd_on_the_run, you got banned and rose 'from the grave'? What you get banned for dude?
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Damn you Michael Bay.
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Before my time, but aquaf@g perhaps? I'm sure some LOTR threads could make it, etc...
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I second that.
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...DerLanghaarige. I wonder what happened to him.
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For people lamenting the way tb'ers used to be in 'them ol days'...
I recently spent a bit of time in the ARMAGEDDON thread one of the earliest tb's from 1998 (don't ask why) and in that tb all the talkbackers have nicks like 'Andy' and 'Pete'.
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Most would think trek would be number one, but lets not forget this sites gay love affair with slumdog millionaire, or it's misguided infatuation with zombieland and drag me to hell
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Just a thought.
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...heavy on the "professional" or whatever it is gang...cool gang and all, but maybe you guys should all be one entry or something...like what a movie wins Best Picture and seventy five people rush the stage...
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Dec 02, 2009 1:53:40 PM CST
Dirk the Amoeba - that is a good list of Tb'ers
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
I may quibble with one or two, but you nailed the descriptions boy, er Amoeba!
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Dec 02, 2009 1:54:05 PM CST
I'd like to give a shout-out to all of the fallen talkbackers...
by iamnicksaicnsn
Not necessarily the dead ones, but the ones who seemingly don't come around anymore, and haven't for years.
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Dec 02, 2009 1:55:46 PM CST
Sumbody seems disappointed he did not make any list
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Yeah, me too!
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...something about a reality show. I don't know, I don't click over there much. He was around once or twice under a new name, but I haven't seen him since. Good guy.
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...well, I was
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Let me tell you, I was REALLY looking forward to that flick when I first heard about it. Because I really love noir, I like pitch black comedy, and I like Cusack. Holy shit did this movie SUCK. What a letdown. For one it could never decide what it wanted to be. Its tone would shift on a dime like every 15 minutes to something entirely different. Just an awful, wasted mess of a movie.
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...strong enough opinions about STAR TREK, STAR WARS, any superheroes, or comics generally to be top ranking talkbacker.
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armargeddon
by Andy Aug 7th, 1998
01:24:32 AM
This film is worse than Independence Day. It had the most cliched dialogue in any film I had ever seen. Yet another horrid American flag-waving piece of nonsense that couldn't even entertain me with its obscene budget.
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Um, RedEgiraahgnal spelled backwards is...guess who?
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It's me. Take a good look at my nickname. But don't tell anyone. I might get banned for the 5th time, just because for making Herc angry once!
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That's just criminal. He was around almost as long as I can remember.
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17) JeTTl93 - Insane. But found his 8 1/2 minutes of fame by pretending to be the writer/caterer/dog-walker/piss -bucket-boy/hand-job giver of every film in hollywood for the past ten years -and some people fell for it.
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I think if he could, he'd set us on fire with his mind.
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The only 3 on the list that actually belong on a best of the decade list (of those I've seen) are Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Adaptation and I Heart Huckabees. I enjoyed Bring It On as much as the next person, but among the top 100 of the decade??? What?!
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Dec 02, 2009 2:02:50 PM CST
...well, I'm off to kill myself now. Or come up with a new...
by flickapoo
...name. It's been good knowing you all...I'll most likely be dead by morning...
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I got banned simply for complaining that a certain posted article was a couple of days lagging behind its appearance elsewhere on the 'net, and making the light-hearted crack "Ain't It Old News". Inexplicable really, given some of the nasty shit that folk have posted on here in the past without repudiation, but that's Merrick for you. He must be a very thin-skinned individual.
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...does that get me off the hook of shame?I'm very tired. I'm not myself...
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the other stuff might be true
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Or he saw that list of yours - you include some of the most batshit crazy tb'ers in your top ten best and you wonder why you were banned? Ha!
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He should have added: Tossed salad supreme, as well.
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...is fucking criminal. Of course, it's not like we really expected Beaks to have decent taste. You know, it's amazing, this is one of the biggest movie news sites on the net, yet every reviewer other than Quint (and previously Moriarty too) is retarded.
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I made some comment about cancer and i got banneddon't rmember or know what all the fuss was about or why i got banned
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Thanks Beaks for adding Miami Vice in there. I thought it was a highly underrated film, and the ultimate example of a movie that's style over substance approach actually worked in its favor. It's a movie you can watch with the sound turned off and still enjoy.Have to disagree about the Director's Cut boat race intro though; I thought that was an improvement over the theatrical intro.
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Thanks Beaks for adding Miami Vice in there. I thought it was a highly underrated film, and the ultimate example of a movie that's style over substance approach actually worked in its favor. It's a movie you can watch with the sound turned off and still enjoy.Have to disagree about the Director's Cut boat race intro though; I thought that was an improvement over the theatrical intro.
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...for calling Herc's reality shows "Housewife TV". Too bad. He was around since 2003.
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Is Mr Beaks calling this list the TOP MY FAVORITE BEST MOVIES OF THIS DECADE, or is he calling it THE BEST MOVIES OF THIS DECADE? Because of the later, then he does have aspirations to be a definitive list. If you accept it or not, that's your own deal, of cours,e but by giving this notion of a definitive list, he is incorring in just criticism. Which he could be spared some if he had called it his PERSONAL favorite list. And no, you don't assume a list is personal jsut because a person is compiling. Because every lists are compiled by people. If the list is personal, you better call it that.
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"Dude that's a prime example of what a great movie ought to be."I'll ignore the fact that the ending (i.e the reveal and motive of the 'villain') of SNOOZE BABY SNOOZE was complete and utter shit, as the storyline was taken from the source material so the blame goes to the author.From what i've heard, the book actually has a decent pace and is quite riveting. The movie, however fails completely in both areas. It's a slow. tedious trawl to reach the outrageous ending using as many close-ups as possible (Ben Affleck obviously took all of his directing tips from episodes of CSI). Most of the cast seem to be phoning in their performances and the younger Affleck (who i thought was excellent in Jesse James) was wasted here and obviously needed more lessons with whoever was coaching him the accent.This movie is a mess. I actually convinced two of my friends to keep watching it (as they were complaining it was boring) and had to apologize when the credits finally rolled because it was such a slog to get through.I envy people such as yourself who can see something worthy in that movie as it means you didn't walk away with the same bitter taste in your mouth that i did.It does NOT belong in the top 100 movies of this decade.
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Ha, I DL'd a bunch of movies that you apparently ripped, small f'in world. So, Thanks! My list of underappreciated TB'ers, in no particular order... -RevSkarekroe: Most succinctly funny TB'er ever, his one or two posts in any TB are subtley worded gold. I still remember when all his posts ended with -SK. -Emeraldboy: I love that every post of his seems to be a slightly disjointed journalistic musing on several subjects, one of which is always related to Ireland. Also, I've decided that the best way to read his posts is to imagine them being read by Paul Harvey doing his best Chris Walken impression. -Buzz Maverik: Not very active anymore but thanks to him I have a new respect for Purdy shotguns and Peckinpah movies. I miss his weekly recaps, and also seriously want to hear the epic tale of all the Maverik brothers and cousins. -BSB: I don't know if BSB invented the high-frequency post pattern that seems to dominate this site now, but he perfected it. My other suggestions aren't quite underapprectiated, but deserve their props nonetheless... DocPaz, MNG, DVader, Lost Jarv, Continentalop, TKD, Subs, MCMXVII, YackBacker, Flickapoo, Cobra-Kai, MattmanReturns, Turd, Liberal_Warrior... and undoubtedly more that I can't remember... but all top guys and responsible for much of what makes this site worth reading. -
just like gossip talk shows are redneck TV and Navy NCIS is douchebag TV
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The pratice is stupid and should be a stop to that. and that Mr Pseudo-Intellectual Poseur Mr Beeaks goes for such a basic mistake is just telling. What is bes,t to go with the mistake, or to correct it everytime you have the chance? The decade ends at Decenber 31th 2010 and that's it. This is not being pedantic. Pedantic is to continue a dumb error because you are too lazy to do anything about it.
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Turd, that fucking sucks. I can understand why someone who makes a nasty comment in an obit gets a banning but for saying 'aint it old news'... wtf.
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who started this shenanagiens?
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DocPaz and Lost Jarv actually write posts? All i see them do is bashign the shit out of me, day in day out, with no other subject in their minds and no other efforts in their posts. From my point of view, your choice of those two is weird beyond belief. Unless you fucking hate my guts like nothing else on Earth.
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Dec 02, 2009 2:21:35 PM CST
Hey_Kobe, some of them ARE bat-shit crazy BUT
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
they are also very, very entertaining. Lunatics and even trolls are welcome on my 'Best Of' list (the TB's would be much duller without them) - but whether you are the good kind of crazy or the bad, IMO comes down to whether you are entertaining (or serve a useful purpose - in Gab Gray's case, the lesser of two evils). The ones selected for my 'Worst' list were either tedious bores or genuine scum. All IMO, of course.
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Dec 02, 2009 2:21:44 PM CST
Lockesbrokenleg should be in every 10 Worst TBers list
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
That dude is a complete asshat. He hits and runs on every TB, shitting out some vile comment usually on something he knows nothing about. A complete waste of everybody's time as well as his mother's bile-drenched womb.
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Still leaving me off your suck-up list? Okay, well I'm nominating your mom's mouth as my favorite cum receptacle, followed by your sister's ass.
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and GREAT at the same time. Wow, funny and then uncomfortably scary and WTF?! Families are wonderful, aren't they? Main actor is super.
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is an intentionally bad best of list. No one, not even Beaks, is retarded enough to actually include some of those films in this list for any other reason than piss people off.
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Dirk_the_whatshisface and Turd_has_whatever are trying to score brownie points.
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You're on my top list for your name alone.
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Need a hug? Or perhaps to fuck a goat?
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Jesus, get a grip.
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Dec 02, 2009 2:28:40 PM CST
Beaks you are going catch so much shit over this list!
by lanemyersclassic
Love it! Can't wait to see more!
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kwizachaderachrogueleader66southafricanguybringbacksexy (for the laughs and deadpan humour)Cobra--KaiSeries7StabbySubtitles_OffIndustryKillerMedia Messiah (say what you will about the man, but he's never boring)DannyGloversDickBlood (the legend, the insanity, the laughs)There's many others i'm missing out, but i haven't seen them in here for a while, and thus i'm forgetting to name them in the list.
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Sheep like you should be careful to whom they call goat fuckers... just in case they really are.
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I know you guys aren't exactly simpatico, but they've always been stand-up guys IMO. I think your "style" kinda rubs them the wrong way, and while I'm not going to break your balls about it anymore, they were involved in some epic dust-ups before your arrival with another Portugese TB'er who hated Bay and Abrams and shared your penchant for expressing zealous proclamations on their movies, so I can't fault them for their snark. But I'm sure you'd recognize that when the subject of the conversation is anything but Bay or Abrams they are both witty guys with well written points and are a boon to talkback. I'd include you on that list too but you're damn near a TB celebrity, hardly unappreciated, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if you were mentioned on the next Trek commentary. Maybe not in the way you want, but still. -
I know you guys aren't exactly simpatico, but they've always been stand-up guys IMO. I think your "style" kinda rubs them the wrong way, and while I'm not going to break your balls about it anymore, they were involved in some epic dust-ups before your arrival with another Portugese TB'er who hated Bay and Abrams and shared your penchant for expressing zealous proclamations on their movies, so I can't fault them for their snark. But I'm sure you'd recognize that when the subject of the conversation is anything but Bay or Abrams they are both witty guys with well written points and are a boon to talkback. I'd include you on that list too but you're damn near a TB celebrity, hardly unappreciated, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if you were mentioned on the next Trek commentary. Maybe not in the way you want, but still. -
Sorry, but I don't see why it matters. Feel free to continue your crusade of education but it really doesn't seem like a 2+2=5 sort of thing. It has become the common shorthand for cultural designation. Ain't isn't a word, but through use it has become accepted. I wouldn't describe the decade quibbles as pedantic, but I would describe them as persnickety in terms of the larger goals of this article, which is to reflect on the past ten years of cinema.
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Over-reacting much? Big supporter of Mr Beaks? And your notion of me as a contrarian is misguided. Call The Dark Knight a great movie and wait for me to be a contrarian on that. You would better pull chair and a very confy pillow.
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Call this list "The Top 100 Films of the 00's" and then all you OCD decade freaks can go jerk each other off to 2001 millennium calendars.
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Then the list should had been called THE BEST MOVIES OF THE LAST TEN YEARS. But to call it the best movies of the naughts list and place it between 2000 and 2009 is just ignorant. Which is so unbecoming the intellectual powerhouse that is AICN's own resident intellectual that is Mr Beaks.
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...I cant believe I saw it in the theaters wit my friends... then actually saw more guys from our school in the same row as us... it was a ok movie, but of course Mrs Mary helped out A LOT... plus who doesnt love a gag where a guy slips his finger in a girls booty hole?
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A decade is ten years, and he is reviewing the past ten years of film, so I don't see how it is inaccurate. The title is not THE BEST MOVIES OF THE FIRST DECADE IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY.
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Again, Fruit Loops would have been shooting out of my nose if I'd been eating while reading your description of RetardRage.
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i'm lying. i scrolled down and saw Miami Vice. what a fucking terrible list. i know its a hundred movies but still. no thanks,
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Beaks started out as an anonymous talkbacking schmuck too!
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number 0: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation!
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Well, i guess their witticism was left in the gutter when they decided to mistake me for some other fellow and decided to became the Kings Of Assholery. And as if i am the only guy in the universe which dislikes both Bay and Abrams. Fuck, EVERYBODY I KNOW who is a movie geek think of those two assclowns as untalented assclowns who make shit movies. Maybe we are all the same person, Borg style, hem? and you bet it rubs me the wrong way their xenophobic shit they spew. Witty peoplwe wouldn't even consdier to do that as a way for personal attack. They can attack me for what they want and for what they will, but to involve my nationality on the attack just shows the spineless little fascist shits they are. They are witty? Maybe only when their mothers write the talkbacks for them while they are visiting the next pigstick eating pig's shit. Forgiving me if i have a lesser then favourable opinion of those two assholes then you have, but i have sene their uglier shittier side, and it far overshadows their better. When the shit overshadows the good, the shit prevails. And me, i don't mistake shit for wit.
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How droll.
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i guess i don't show up to the party enough to be memorable. maybe i just have a life.... oh and Beaks, your list is shit.
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Unless that's the Tranny cum Gulper, who I've never seen before...
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Films are made on film. Never the less, I love Miami Vice. A true guys type of movie.
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you should see this one: http://seanstangland.blogspot.com/2009/10/10-years-100-movies-part-1-100-76.html
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you should see this one: http://tinyurl.com/y99h4kx
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Dec 02, 2009 2:56:49 PM CST
Anyway Asimov, we should be debating the list.
by liesandpicturesofalsolies
How did Miami Vice end up on this?
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Well, he is calling it the top movies of the decade. And the decade is the way centuries are devided. Decades are the 80s, the 90s, the 00s. And he's talkign about this decade, which started in January 1st 2001 and ends in December 31th 2010.Have you ever seen the trailer for 2001: A Space Oddyssey? The trailer says "In the first year of the 21th century, an extraordinary adventure". As you cna see, there was no problem to say to an general audience back then that the 21th century would start in the year 2001. Everybody knew that. The traielrs took that for granted. And today, people go up in arms if there's a mention that this decade started in 2001 and ends at 2010? And that the incorrect goes by because it's too convenient or too lazy to accomodade the knowledge? What happened to people since the 60s that today everybody would nmake such a basic crass mistake and go with it as if there's nothing to it? As if it's the truth?
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Or an Most Overrated films list?
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I think he's the one that blocked my old TB name because I called him out on his terrible, and I mean TERRIBLE "A Christmas Carol" review. Or maybe its Harry's review where I told him reviews like that make it easy for people to tell him "You really are an idiot,"... like I did.
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I've had one movie review and one trailer review posted in the past 12 years. I guess I'm working my way up =).
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And I knew Pixar would be on it. Every ass kisser has a Pixar cartoon on their list.
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I have no antipathy for MIAMI VICE. I think it's a terribly underrated movie. Certainly compared to many other Mann's movies, his best, it's hardly at the top. but it's hardly a movie tobe dragged in the mudd either. As far i'm concerned, the movie introduced me to Mogwai's music, and for that alone it has a pretty positive note from me, if that makes any sense. And of course, any chance to have the gorgeaus Gong Li in the big screen (and in a shower scene) is always a good thing. God bless Mann for that!!!
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tie between CoughlinsLaws and FATFUCK aka MorbidObesity. Just ask them what a casualty is. You'll see.
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Buzz MaverickOl' PainlessConspiracyAll the pedalbackersPazuzuGaius
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I have to say, my dear foe, that in this instant, we two might be in quite some agreement.
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How does it feel to be mentioned on every single "Worst TBers List" posted here by your peers?
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I love having to scroll side to side to read an article...
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I just realised after I posted that I named him Tranny Cum Gulper, instead of giving him the dignity of his actual user name like everyone else. It's my nickname for him, and I guess I had it on the brain while I was typing (someone else coined another nickname for him - Tranny Felcher; also highly appropriate. Was it you? I can't remember).
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Whatever asshole. Are you at home beating off to Bring it On?
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"YOU ARE ALL NUMERO UNO IN MY BOOK"Always the gentleman.
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Mogwai is great, I will agree on that and escape this talkback of madness to Sons of Anarchy.
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And watching you respond is part of what makes this site great. Flamewars and feuds can be awesome. I'm currently enjoying watching Xiphos and the current incarnation of CreepyThinMan/CarlThomasMark go at it with nails extended.
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Is easily There Will Be Blood.
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SSzero.....rascist fucktard. Not seen in years, thankfullyMedia Messiah...someone get the man a straight jacketJett....like many a good idea, out stayed his welcomeCTM1978.....desperately in need of a blowjobSith_Rising....let to learn that boasting about having a girlfriend with whom you enjoy Twilight probably means you're relentlessly single.Peter Griffin.....semi literate cock, still waiting for his Journey Through Classic Cinema
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It was a group of high school friends and we were all freshmen in college and at home on break. I was sitting with my new girlfriend. Then who walks in late to the movie and sits right in front of us? None other than my old girlfriend- the one I cheated on with my new girlfriend. Gulp.
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Dec 02, 2009 3:11:16 PM CST
UGH! i'm surpised he didn't include Clerks 2 on this lame ass li
by stalkeye
Damn, not one of these films would make my top 50. But fuckit, to each his own I guess.
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It is WIDELY accepted that the decade started with the year 2000. Remember the Y2k bug? 2000 is not considered part of the 90's decade. It might be technically wrong, but its the way things are done.
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Top ten, maybe, but never a top 100.
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Dec 02, 2009 3:15:33 PM CST
Asimov, you are partially wrong and jsut being pedantic
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
If you go by the traditional Gregorian calendar, which began in the year 1 AD, then you are correct. There was no year 0. However, mathematically speaking there is of course, a year 0. Not to mention the Gregorian calendar wasn't properly thought out until well after this time. It isn't a lazy mistake, just a different system for marking time - modern notions of mathematics. You will find few who would ascertain the 80's, for example, to be 81-90.
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I just call him Idiot.
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Biggest Loser
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Explain to me how that post is insulting to me. Better yet, explain to me why someone who hates quality films continues to post day after day on a site he is loathed on.
I have a theory that I'll share w/ you. I think you come here because you are in a fact, a complete and total loser. I think that the hate you recieve on these boards is the only attention you get, both online AND in the real world. I think you come here out of some sick desperate need for human interaction, but you unfortunately lack the experience/intelligence/personality to make a good impression on anyone.
I'm guessing you already knew all that. I just thought I'd run it by you in case you're too fucking stupid to see it for yourself.
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That motherfucker and I had some insane discussions last year prior to the election. Not to take anything away from homeboy DGDB and the CoC crew, but those guys never made me want to choke a bitch like Coughlin's. That cunt nearly made me seek out anger management and is responsible for my current issues with raging alcoholism.And while I think Beak's list is mainly shit, after having done a best of the decade list myself, I have to say it's harder than it seems. And you're hard pressed to find anyone who agrees with even a single movie on your list, especially if it's a more concise list than this.
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That's not what we need now, we're in the midst of a great big old Talkbacker lovefest! Anyway, kudos to you on your writing career! I do not have aspirations to write for this site. I dunno if Beaks did, but he is a former talkbacker. I've sent in an early review or two when I thought it was appropriate. I think, with a site like this, reader-submitted content is important to keep things fresh and to keep people here. Especially when this site seems to be lagging so far behind in scoops and actual news. Every story the past few weeks has been a list of winners for a screening of some film in Chicago or Austin or LA or... bleh. There's been hardly anything of real substance for a while.
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Easy to say when you are at the outside looking in, friend.
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i was embarassed for both actors during the i drink your milkshake scene. fucking terrible movie. no business being in the running for best picture that year.
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He's fucking insane. I defend him as being harmless and he still takes time out to insult me!
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But it looks like you enjoy coming up with insults and rebuttals.
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FAME!! IN YOUR FACE!! FAME!!
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Troll Alert. If you'd like I can send you a copy of "Bratz" on DVD. I'm sure you'll love it.
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if not the number 1. Watching it again now and it just keeps getting better.
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That's what I'm really working on. The reviews I sent here to AICN were just for fun.
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but it's your list Beaks so you get to have any way you want.
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BBC Office
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Bores me to tears
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is the Wire, though I'd like to thank everyone else for playing.
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(in no particular order) 1. Traffic 2. Lost in Translation 3. Memento 4. City of God 5. The Lives of Others 6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 7. The Royal Tenenbaums 8. Matchpoint 9. No Country for Old Men 10. Children of Men
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You know what's so sad about those two DocPaz and Lost Jarv fucks? It's that there is no real rhyme or reason behind their antagonism. It's just bashing for bashing sake. I even made the test of posting something in the line of soemthing they agree, and they bashed me for my "retarded coment". This guys don't give a fuck what one says, to them it only matters to talk trash. and i shoudl mistake that shit for wit and whatever? Balls!!Let me offer you an example of a different kind. Mr Nice Gaius, i couldn't had started with him in a worst manner. But one day he made this very smart, very knowledgable remark about Cormac McCarthy that impressed the hell out of me. so, i posted in reply to him that though we were enemie,s i was very impressed with his knoweldge of the author, and found his post a most enlightning one. And he replied back to me in great kindness and sympathy. Since them we have been pretty affable to each other, and i really like to chat with him, whenever i ahve the chance. I now relaised our mutual inicial antipathy was just a case of bad communication gone wrong.With DocPaz and Lost KJarv, there's no mistake in communication: those two are fucking assholes too full of themselves. How do this idiots define themselves, by their conflicts? What fucking assholes! I even tried to reach to them,a dn what they do? Find any stupid little unimportant insignificant thing to resume the bashing. In Lost Jarv's pathetic case, it was my mention that i have also in me some celtic ancestry, due to the fact i'm portuguese. Lost Jarv, the pussy, decides to be offended by that because he considers himself a Celt and woe he who does not fullfill the criteria, akas, born in UK in a particular dire straights of the country. Fuck that shit. I know that for many british people, their celtic identity is important, to distinguish themselves from the english. But he could take his thin skilled idioticy and shove it up his ass. Ihave chatted with many british celts and they actually find it encouraging and satisfying that there's more celtic culture people thoughout in europe then just the British Isles. Lost Jarv the fuckhead decides to play insulted. He can get that isnult and shove it up his fucking ass, the fucking pussy. He's not a celt, he's a rat's ass. I respect celts, i relate to them and their culture and they ways, and Lost Jarv is no celt. Fuck him and his stupid idioticy. Of course all he really wanted was to fidn an excuse to bash me and resume the antagonism. Well, that's no real way for a celt to behave. Not one worthy of being called a celt. But a pussy, yes, certainly.Sorry for the longwinded post about this two assclowns DocPaz and Lost Jarv, but to see those two fucks in anybody's top ten talkbackers is just beyond wrong. It's bizarro universe wrong.
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Clone Wars. WOOHAH!
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shooting Hitler in the face has got to be in there.
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That plotless mess of a film was and continues to be too highly regarded by too many self-professed film geeks. It was a chore to sit through; with almost zero cathartic release or resolution at the end. It goes right up there alongside "Shawshank Redemption" as one of the most overrated films of ALL TIME.
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Traffic is a 2000 movie. It means it belongs to the previous decade, the 90s, which ended in the year 2000.
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oh wait that's your top ten "best" movies of the decade. Nevermind.
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you're fucking nuts gruntybear.
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There's nothing you find enjoyable in Shoau Of The Dead? I found it terribly enjoyable myself. Butt ehn agian maybe i'm biased because i already knew the team who made the movei from the TV show SPACED. For me, what's really overrated is HOT FUZZ. I loved the concept of the movie,a nd it wa a great oportunity to mock the shit out of the worst of the action movies' bulslhit. Instead, the movie goes too reverencial, even appologetic, on it. A missed oportunity. Even bloody THE LAST BOY SCOUT, a Holywood movie, is far more irreverent and critical of action movies then Hot Fuzz. That's not right!
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Always makes me feel better, puts me in a better mood, by the time the credits roll.
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How droll.
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yeah, I guess it is a depressing list. but maybe that's what the post 9/11 film decade will be recognized for. there are a lot of more upbeat film I really liked, but the films I listed are the films I think people will still be watching 30-40 years from now.
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...is correct, The Wire is the best TV show of the decade, and probably several of the preceeding decades. But (and I think you'll agree with me on this, Lies) Venture Brothers is the best cartoon, hands down.
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Pity him. How was Dave digitized? I don't get that. I understood that the aliens captured him to study him. Then sent him back as a starchild to take care of Earth.
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for those who are not obsessed with the film, the opening quote is from Elastigirl. Does that mean it will be number one? only children of men and the wrestler beat it, in my book, for this decade.
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I don't find Shawshank Redenmption all that uplifting myself, but i admire it for the great movie it is. I think that if the movie had been a downer by the end i would had loved it the same. Becasue ehat goes about in the whole movie is just pure cinematic magic. It feels great to have loved the movie since it came out back in the day, and have my love of it justified by the justifiably great acceptance it has today.
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Dec 02, 2009 3:47:19 PM CST
...I think I've had a stroke or something. I'd have to see..
by flickapoo
...a complete list of the decade's movies before I could pick my favorites...maybe I just need to start writing things down.
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Dec 02, 2009 3:47:30 PM CST
Spielberg is the ONLY 70's "movie brat" who's still good
by nasty in the pasty
Crystal Skull (which wasn't THAT BAD, people) and the pleasant-but lightweight Terminal aside, he's been doing consistently great work all decade. A.I., Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, WOTW and fucking MUNICH?! What the fuck have Coppola and Lucas done in the last ten years? Scorsese is still good, though.
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Myself i would rate ROME or CARNIVÀLE as the best TV show of the 2000s. To this day i still can't believe those two shows ever even made, much less survived for two seasons. And my heart breaks that they got cancelled when they were getting better and better.
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How do you feel by its end? Ambivalent?
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Dec 02, 2009 3:49:28 PM CST
who was the guy who started the "HAS A BEER AND CHEETS"
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
thing? i read the review where he said that, which was probably the greatest review of all time, but was he ever a talkbacker?
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Fellowship of the Ring, A Few Good Men, Pirates of the Caribbean, Revenge of the Sith, Rudy. And most of them have that same "uplifting" spirit.
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I just kept scanning through and thought to myself "No...no... no, that one doesn't have a happy ending either." Except maybe Royal Tenenbaums.
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Pssh.
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Dec 02, 2009 3:51:24 PM CST
the_shogun_gunslinger: thanks for alerting me you are a troll
by bmacsmith
next time put it in the subject line so i'll know to avoid you.
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No, Crystal Skullfuck was not that bad, it was fucking worst! I needed to check out the poster on my way out to see if it was not Michael Bay who made that shit, bwecause i just couldn'tm believe i ever lived to see a Spielberg movie that was THAT FUCKING BAD!! And of all things, an Indiana Jones movie!! Talk about raping one's childhood, you can't get worst then that! The SW prequels even at their very worst have nothing on the trainwreck that is Crystal Skullfuck! I want to forget i ever watched that POS! Ignorance is bliss indeed!
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Woe ye who watches!
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God, so agreed. Monarch is infinitely quotable.
"Some of the pressure has been released!"
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COme on! i see that movie causing Beaks to throwaway this list and start over.
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has the POLAR BEAR FROM LOST!"
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That post didn't work out like I thought it would.
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But its hilarious all the same.
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AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAh!!! The fucking laugh of the week!!! Good job, friend!
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about adventure or sci fi movies anymore. the exact moment was when The Lost World was made. you could tell he just did. not. give a shit. he's still good at movies he cares about, like Private Ryan or Schindler's List.
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I loved those shows too, and most of HBO's fare would rank highly on the list of best TV of the decade (Deadwood, Sopranos, etc), but I can say with no exaggeration that The Wire deserves the top slot. If you have access to the DVD's, throw in the first season and commit to the first 3-4 episodes, and by the time you meet Omar, I guarantee you'll be hooked. The best part is, it only improves with each subsequent season, adding more layers and characters to the story, and by the end of the fifth (final) season, it wraps up every story thread perfectly. Honestly, if you liked Rome and Carnivale and you want to see the same craftmanship applied to what initially appears to be a police procedural/urban crime drama but turns into something much deeper, you should check it out, I'm legitimately curious to hear what your reaction to it would be. -
Rome cost so much money, it is pretty shocking that it got made. I hear it did really well for HBO, though I'd love some confirmation on that.
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Up Jar Jar Abrams's ass. It was an easy fit.
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it was soap opera melodrama acting! and im a HUGE Day Lewis fan. HUGE. but that was awful. and that other guy couldnt even keep up. he was miles out of his league.
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What is this Crystal Skull you refer to? Is it like that supposed 4th Die Hard I keep hearing crazy people talking about? Poor fools living in their fantasy worlds.
Tenenbaum: Good list. Sort of a depressing lot, haha but all quality none the less.
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Art centered around some of our favorite 80's movies. http://www.heyyouguyscharity.com/?page_id=12
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Smurfs are not fucking mammals!
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best one liner of the decade.
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I believe you. Don't you think i was dissing The Wire in any way. It's just that for me, there's hardly anything that comes as closer to perfection as Rome and Carnivàle did. Rome in particular, i'm extreemly impressed in how they decided to have a TV show where they presented the ancient romans AS THEY WERE, instead of some modern day sensebilities version, which even a good movie like Gladiator makes the mistake to do.
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I think he still gave a shit then. Just look at the Hitchcockian Julianne Moore on the Glass sequence.
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Dec 02, 2009 4:03:59 PM CST
man i'm surprised so many people like Tenenbaum's list
by ninja_dynamite
and then bash Beaks cause his list his to artsy.
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#24: I can't believe that whore stole my Stanza.
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Just as we entered the 21st century in the year 2000, and just as the year 0 started out the move from BCE to the CE or the BC to AD.
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...for favorite TV character of the millenium. It seems like they initially wrote him as just a name-gag (like Baron Underbheit or Nat King Cobra) but he grew into this hilarious deconstruction of supervillainy over 4 seasons. And I think McCullough's voice acting should get a lot of the credit, he's the new king of nasal-whining evil (inherited from Cobra Commander and Starscream.) Nobody else can make me laugh by just screaming "MINIONS!" like he can. -
... and yes, its about hobbits too."
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If I had the money, I think I'd buy that Raiders Toht plushie, or the Gremlins one. Lots of badass paintings there too, like the 80's Villains Cocktail Party.
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There is no 4th Die Hard movie. It's the raving of lunatics! I just wishes it was the same with CRSTAL SKULLFUCK. How i would give that shit had been some my own allucination and nobodty else had suffered through it. How i wish it never existed!
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This coming from a dude that can't understand the new Trek movie.
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I love this movie. Already have seen it four times, and I am looking forward to watching it with that theory in place.
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I appreciate the TB-love. I love all of you crazy bastages- some a lot more than others, but I'm fascinated by and addicted to this insane group. The 1998-format of these TBs has fucking ruined me too- I don't even know how to make comments on more up-to-date sites. I'm stuck being a TBer for life!
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Mr Beaks's list is artsy??? That's a laugh! Or maybe he just puted the "artsy" stuff in the lower end. but don't you worry, relax, because Mr Beaks will put Jar Jar Abrams's STINO shit at number one. No artsy-farty stuff like intelligence, wit, stoytelling competence, sensebility and all that shit in that one.
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Dec 02, 2009 4:18:05 PM CST
The Monarch has wrung more laughs per word.
by liesandpicturesofalsolies
Than just about any character I can think of. My name is a testament to that.
"Come on, he's in DEPECHE MODE."
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No. Stop with the easy questions!
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Good relations with the Wookiees, I have.
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Oh, i understood it alright. I understood it really good. Why do you think i bash it?
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...has earned the hit I'm going to put out on their life.
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We entered the 21th century in 2001!! God, how is it that people in the 60s had no problem understanding this, but people in the 21th century have? Talk about the degradation of the educational system.
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Dec 02, 2009 4:21:18 PM CST
unlike Jett i actually DID get banned on the Fawcett obit
by takingscorpioscalls
as Prossor, made a necrophilia comment on there and that shitweasel cumsnorter merrick banned me. Ironically enough merrick is the only contributer who has the absolute worst taste in movies, just a worthless drop of slime from some spider's fart. The good things he hates, and the bad things he sucks those dongs until shit starts to come out of the pee holes.
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...I can't bitch that my favorites have been left out yet because we haven't seen the whole list...we can't argue about the top ten yet because we haven't seen the whole list...and frankly, my brain isn't remotely big enough to rank my 75-100 favorite movies of the 00's.So it's premature to discuss Mr. Beaks' movie likes and dislikes...better just to focus on the fact that I made ebonic_plague's honorable mention list...I'm still in the running to be America's next to model!
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The more into the future we go, the more ignorant we get.
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Its widely, and I mean WIDELY accepted that the millenium started with 2000. The 90's ended with 1999. No one, and I mean no one, says that the year 2000 is part of the 90's.
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Let me just throw this out there...DiCaprio in the Departed it just such a phenominal piece of work I always saw Dicaprio as a BOY, even in the wonderful Catch Me If You Can and the Aviator, he was too boyish, but in the Departed, he just took it to the next level. I personally think its the best thing hes ever done and he should have won the Oscar. The scene where he bares his soul in Vera Farmiga's office is absolutely stunning and thier chemistry is incredible......
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Dec 02, 2009 4:23:36 PM CST
Technically its 2001, yes... that's what the commentators said
by dvader
But everyone accepts 2000 as the start of the 00's.
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Whatever the hit costs. There is absolutely no fan of film, or ESPECIALLY Star Wars, that would put the prequels on any best of list. but you know what I don't think Beaks will. I don't always agree with him but he's an intelligent guy.
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I'd watch Revenge of the Sith before fucking Ultraviolet.
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....but Nicholas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas is one the greatest performances by an actor ive ever seen..I saw it twice in the theatres and wept like I had a va-jayjay both times.....what the fuck happened to his career?
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That and David Mamet's Spartan are two excellent underrated "man on a mission" films that are lean mean and chock full o' awesome. Glad to see people coming around on Miami Vice.
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The 98's format of this talkbacks and this site is part of it's charm, i agree with you. It's like retro cool. God, i must be getting really old if something that was made as recently as 1999 can be now considered part of the retro movement by the younglings!
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No one would have believed pre-TPM that Episodes II and III wouldn't make even a top 50 list. Gosh, what a sad tragedy the prequels turned out to be.
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Let the right one in.
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Has room for Episode III.
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The Monarch is a fantastic character. Hell, Venture Bros. as a whole is one of the most solid TV series of all time IMO.
"Father?"
"Yes, son?"
"I want to kill yooouuu... Mother.. I want to...COOOOMMMEEE OOONNNN"
That whole episode killed me.
@Dvader: I loved that Raiders plushie, haha. Yeah, the villains cocktail party was pretty good too. Good to see all the GB love on there too.
@Asimovlives: That's what I keep telling people. Die Hard 4 is domething we film fans will always look forward to, but will never get. As for Crystal Skull... well, I saw it w/ a friend and my brother opening day. Was a huge Indy fan growing up, still am... When we left the theater, asses still sore from the 2 hours of rape we just endured, we all burned our ticket stubs, forever erasing all memory of that abomination.
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...I'd like it to be number one, but I acknowledge that VENTURE BROS. very good.If I was gay, and a cartoon character...I'd be saving myself for Samurai Jack.
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NUMBER 1 IN YOUR FACE ASSHOLES!!
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Dec 02, 2009 4:38:00 PM CST
Look Asimov, I thought 2010 would be part of this decade too...
by iamnicksaicnsn
and was confused that people would start putting out best of the decade lists now, and even if you ignore the year 2000, what do you do about the year 0?
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I've been watching the series on Boomerang the past few months and have been amazed that I missed it during its initial run. The pilot is nothing short of amazing, and the episode with the warrior longing for Valhalla was quite heart-breaking too.
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i belive i made a post about how cancer was the universe way of curbing the over growing population of humans...i forget what my screen name was
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TWBB will definitely be in the top 10, even though its shit. Probably something else critics drool over then realize they are shit years later (the English Patient). was Shakespeare in Love this decade? thats a movie destined for the list.
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gave his best performance ever in The Departed. I would have never guessed he had the acting chops to come across as a tough guy. He's always seemed like a Glen Ford wannabe to me.
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Saving Private Ryan, Zombieland, Public Enemies, Cloverfield, Spider Man 2, Dark Knight, Superman Returns, Forrest Gump
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I was just coming back to post that. As much as I love Venture Brothers, Samurai Jack is the best cartoon of the decade, and would easily be on my top ten tv shows of the decade. If there was a Nobel Prize for totally awesome fight versus robots, Jack vs. the Ultrabots would have won it.
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I see some kind of tasteless vortex being opened up as a result of these two fucktards discussing films.
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best ever.
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I think someone's terrible taste is showing.
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EVPs are weird.
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In no particular order:
Corky Romano
Son of the Mask
Basic Instinct 2
Glitter
Supercross: The Movie
The Hottie & The Nottie
Code Name: The Cleaner
Alone in the Dark
Daddy Day Camp
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever -
"Don't cross the streams!"
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benlinus, that movie has a REALLY long title.
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i never once thought of these two as real people. it felt from the start like two actors riffing off each other. HE WHO OVERACTS TEH LOUDEST WINS THE OSCORS! one day, people will see that im right.
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What was the point of that movie?
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...blew my mind. The one where one ninja is only visible in shadow and the other is only visible in light...one of the coolest fight scenes of all time in any medium....and a master class in the use of positive and negative space.
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Overrated? And what's Army of Darkness? What the eff is on your list? Superbad?
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Best thing Wahlberg ever did was Boogie Nights..hands down...its an epic performance.....
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Listen, you don't have to convince me that you have no comprehension of cinema. I already have enough evidence.
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rolled with him on baleback, funny in the beginning, but got worried when he seriously liked bale until he started "praise bale" shit everywhere which got annoying and then did his moriarty-style "fuck aicn" leave to anotehr website. way too much cussing to get his jokes through. assumed a "fall of satan" style god complex in the process. still i sometimes think about "tongue fucking the wart on ridley scott's left nut" occasionally.
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I have a soft spot for FG just like everyone else. It's a feel good movie that makes you think that the world is a big ol' bag of rainbows. In reality it's a movie that is too sugar coated for its own good and it really hasn't aged well.
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Haven't seen it. Army of Darkness was a good movie though, but why what prompted you to ask about it. Seems random.
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Genndy Tartakovsky is an animation giant as far as I'm concerned. I hope Samurai Jack's story gets wrapped up one day. Literally (and I use the word with full knowledge of its meaning) every single episode is a masterful work of art. Wait til you see Seasons of Death Flickapoo.
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kind of like he who pretends to hate quality films in a TB gets the most attention.
I can't tell if you're a troll or just completely retarded. Can I ask how old you are btw? I'm not looking to make fun, I just don't think you have the slightest clue about wtf you're talking about. -
Docpazuzu- this guy's trollsmashing is much needed against the extremism that goes on here but i think he's being consumed by the talkbacks like denzel washington was by the street in training day, way too serious business. very knowledgable on robert e howard which i saw eye to eye with him on. good at smashing god-complexes of many famous talkbackers as well but i fear his fight against the neverending hordes of fanatics here is consuming him, the guy seriously has the same tone now as anton chigurh in his posts sometimes. the most insane aside from the highlander style neverending fight with asimov was agains tht atholocaust denying asshole who actually did get the last word in but by then absolutely no one gave a shit.
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His mom dies. His girlfriend dies. He has a kid at the end. He's not married. I don't get how that's sugar coated.
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I was never into him as an actor but now that sold the deal. Wow demanding a black box? that makes me see him in a new light.
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I share his view of T2 being overrated, of course his obsession of it takes it to another level of demonizing it entirely, but i feel this extremism is warranted to get people to notice the overratedness of this sobstory wack.
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...run...thought I saw them all but somehow missed that one.I really need the whole thing on DVD. A show like SAMURAI JACK reminds you of what's possible.
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A pretty harmless troll with one obsession, Stargate Universe which he never ceases to pimp, and just to see the reactions of other talkbacks losing their shit is funny. "If you say that one more time Satan will be at your doorstep."
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Jesus Christ, even fucking Helen Keller had better taste in movies than you do Beaks.
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I have a feeling we'll be seeing her name on an upcoming installment of the top 100 when the Beakster gets around to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Speaking of which, I'll be surprised if Charlie Kaufman doesn't end up on the short list for director of the decade ... Adaptation (here), Eternal Sunshine, Synecdoche NY (which MUST be in this top 100 or there ain't no justice ...)
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Dec 02, 2009 5:14:25 PM CST
gauranteed movies that will be on this list and piss people off
by jettl93
Revenge of the sith
Spider-man
Superbad
Cloverfield
Superman Returnsandone of the last 2 Matrix movies...perhaps both
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Hmmm... he meets Elvis for no reason, he meets 3 presidents and tell JFK he has to pee (hurr hurr) He goes to Vietnam and remains completely oblivious to any real danger around him (something stuuung meee) and receives the Medal of Honor, He becomes the star of his HS football team, invents the smiley face icon and the shit happens bumper sticker, repairs relations w/ China, becomes filthy rich, becomes a media messiah during his run and then finishes it all off by watching a feather float around.
The moral of the story is that all significant events of the 20th century were shaped in part by a dim-witted southern man completely oblivious to his surroundings and is also immune to the HIV/AIDS virus.
How is the story of a man who has no regard for reality and consequence supposed to resonate long term w/ people? If you can relate to a retard that can't even tell when he's been shot in the ass, it's time to make some changes in your life. -
I believe that 'dubious' honor belongs to me.
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Or, I'm afraid that 'dubious' honor belongs to me.
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Pretty miserable fella who hates everything ever, like a black hole, dropped hints of insanely craving attention by little posts like "everyone gets so mad at me" or "wow a few more posts and everyones on me" type of proto-megalomania. Has no real obsession with something but just craves attention, very sad without purpose.
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The last four or five episodes seem to have gotten neglected in airplay, like the end of Arrested Development, I was surprised to find out they existed after a buddy downloaded them.
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seems like it would be a good read
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Hilarious troll, similar to Diox in the reponses they warrant from other posters are golden. they really do bring out the best in us.
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Seriously, I wish I had said that! Said what? What were you discussing? Is this thing on?
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Charlie Kaufman (see my post above), P.T. Anderson (Punch Drunk Love & There Will Be Blood in this decade; Magnolia just missed it by a year), Coen Brothers (O Brother, Man Who Wasn't There, No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man ... should be enough to forgive them their occasional lapses), Scorsese (Gangs of NY, Aviator, No Direction Home), Chris Nolan (Memento, BB, Dark Knight). Any other candidates?
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You need to put these on Garbage-Pail-Kids type trading cards. Good stuff.
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pun intended
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It's good to see some well mannered and good natured discussion going on.All this talk about certain notable and infamous Talkbackers is making me, dare I say it, nostalgic...
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Dubious honor of what? Christening TrannyFormers_Apologist with more suitable names? I tip my fedora to you (if I was wearing one). Here is another name that aptly describes him:C U N T
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Though not necessarily near each other.
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Sorry, but I'd exclude Cars from that list.
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Dec 02, 2009 5:39:42 PM CST
Damn, I guess I should be glad I didn't make any of the lists
by zombieheathledger
the way some of you guys are ripping people to shreds, lol. Sheesh! (Even though I pretty much singlehandedly handed Bob Orci his ass in a few TB's, lol.) I've been posting here since the mid to late 90's. Been banned a few times. I was a professional on the BB. Cobra can vouch for me. Good read this here, TB.
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Um, YOU guys are the miserable ones. Christ, you guys slam everything popular.
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Dec 02, 2009 5:42:19 PM CST
RE: Top 10 Directors Of The Last Ten Years
by richard_gere_raped_my_gerbil
I'd have Werner Herzog on that list. Whether it's 2001's "Invincible", 2005's "Grizzly Man" or the batshit brilliance of "Bad Lieutenant: POC: NO", the guy's fucking amazing.
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My list will be infinitely superior.
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Uh, ok. Nice non sequitur there. Because my post clearly meant that Ultraviolet should be included in the list in lieu of the Prequels. And by the way, if Ultraviolet is the first thing you think of when someone mentions the Prequels, I guess we have a pretty good idea of your opinion of the movies too.
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worst goddamned sequels in history. i would literally take Mortal Kombat 2 over Reloaded. truly shitty movies that fail in every concievable way, that these assholes masterbated over.
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Isn't that what this article is supposed to do? Gee.
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And while I'm thinking of non-American directors I should throw in Von Trier whom I don't particularly like as a director (in fact I find his work often irritating as hell) but he definitely has the vision-thing going on there. As does Haneke, as Mr Beaks noted above, and he also pisses me off (e.g. that "WTF!?" stunt he pulled about halfway through Funny Games.)
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Solid flick but not great. Awful love story, Nicholson chewing the scenery, a wasted Ray Winstone, 10,123 shots of motherfucking cell phones and a cornpone ending that actually showed a rat on a windowsill. In fact, Marty just doesn't rank for this decade. Aviator? Maybe.
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I judge the movies by either how much I think about them or how much rewatch value I think the movie has. The movie has to have initial impact and lingering effect.
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...you just weren't around. Why do you think I stuck around all day?...sooner or later someone throws you on a list just out of politeness and basic human decency...
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Yes, there those who say that. The ones who actually know how this is. Like, EVERYBODY in the 60s and rpevious decades. a basic knowledge lost for reasons that must be too dumb to even put to writing. and if you keep on defending this position, then excplain to me where in hell is the YEAR ZERO in the calendar. Explain where there is a Year Zero between 1 Bc and 1 AD. Because that is the very reason why the decades start at any year that ends with "1" and ends at the year that ends with "0". And just because the majority folllows a fallacy doesn't make it right. Screw that logic, this is not a matter of democracy, is a matter how it is.
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rough approximation-It's tedious to do research on this stuff but--
Top 10 Talkbackers of decade
1 DGDB-Kept you guys guessing, and was the leader/instigator who made these TBs the funniest comedy site on the internet-bar none. Has since moved on.
2 BSB
3 Series 7
4 Continentalop
5 Conspiracy
6 flickapoo
7 d vader
8 Jarv and Xiphos
9 Cobra-Kai
10 The COC in general
Also rans/lately come sallies:
Lockesbrokenleg. JettL93.AsimovWhatever. Oh yeah moriarty-who walked the fuck away from this slow motion apocalpyse of suck which has become AICN these days. Beaks-interesting list. Respect.
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For me, I judge on a lot of factors. The way I felt the first time I watched it. The re-watch value, The production design, actors/acting, pacing, cutting, music, over-all message and the risks the director or actors take. There are countless factors.
I said I'd post a top 10 but it looks like it's turning into a top 25 :\ I'm not one to usually rank things, maybe other than my top 3-5, so I'm kind of having to think this list over. I really think Beaks overshot with 100 films and maybe should have done a top 50 or something. -
Now he loves THE DARK KNIGHT?? Get out of here!!
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Samurai Jack won't be the same without your incredibly awesome, intentionally over-acted voicework.
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AICN loves those movies. Beaks is a free-thinker, no doubt. But like I said, keep an eye out for those very lackluster films making the list.
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Dec 02, 2009 6:12:03 PM CST
To make the lists you generally have to be either mad,
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
or very noticeable. By that I mean that there are a great many talkbackers here who are generally agreeable people and have written many excellent posts, but are far too measured in their personalities to make the list. Ditto for the large contingent of cunts who frequent these boards, and troll or write garbage, but aren't prominent, original or distinctive enough to make an impression, or come readily to mind, when compiling TB top 10's.With some noticeable exceptions, it's generally the cock that that crows the loudest, for good or ill, that gets the attention. And there are some who all too transparently try way too hard (cough*Nerd Rage*cough). Then there are others like Dickblood - I actually don't think he was trying to be offensive or vile (well, maybe just a little); he was just born that way (a 'special' kind of guy).
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There is no worse sequel in this world than Leonard Part 6.
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...In the same company of DGDB, TDK, Lost Jarv, Cobra, Subs, D. Vader, Series 7, BSB, Stuntcock Mike, conspiracy, etc. But I noticed a couple of names missing that definitely rank higher than me:
Xiphos (toughest tber out there)
Menstrual Blitz (nicest tber out there)
SixDemonBag (coolest tber out there)
TedKordlives (my amigo and co-writer on THE WRECKING CREW movie)
Abominable Snowcone (should be working for the Onion)
The late great Kuzinski Valentine (died in the name of Bale and white Vader)
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Hell, I have autographs of Bale, Cane, Ledger, and Eckhart in my collection.
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I don't want charity, lol. Like I said, given the shredding a lot of folks are getting, I like flying uder the radar just fine, thankyouverymuch, lol. I know I get my shots in, good enough for me :)
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The Brains (founder of the Professionals & first Balebacker), Droid (Jarv's secret crush), Col. Tigh-Fighter (13th apostle of Bale), blakindigo (the guy knows more about exploitation movies than anyone on this site, including me), and ThereWolf (where wolf? There wolf).
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In the company of himself.
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Who like me is waiting for PAVLOV'S HOUSE. Another top TBer.
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Kazoo!
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...top ten AICN fad list? like the "Kurt Russel laughin so its ok", "the electric bugaloo sequel title", and other great AICN fads? huh huh?
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...on me...
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Professional in every way. Same goes for you Dirk, Ebonic, and Megan Foxs Tool Box.
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GRINDHOUSE!!!
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Bladerunner Eunuch. Fuck you and your herd of leper GOATS. Traffic was released in 2000. It's part of THIS Century and this decade, unlike your little fetish for the back ends of the local ovine population around lovely fetid Almada there, which is strictly 4th century and after. Be sure to kiss you sister nite nite right on the bell.
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...into such an impregnable movie watching killing machine that sometimes it's hard to tell you apart.You're sort of a Greek Phalanx of talkbacking...minus the hair braiding, oil rubs, and sodomy I suppose...
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It's like pointing a video camera that's hooked up to a monitor INTO the monitor! I feel dizzy.
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that and the other overrated but slightly less awful Traffic.
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IRONNNN!
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Isn't number fucking one I'm going to be fucking upset
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...is an act of self-aggrandizing hubris. Or, in layman's terms, epic douchebaggery. No one gives a fuck about ranking a slew of B-grade mediocrities. When was the last time someone asked you, "Hey, what do you think was the 81st best movie of the 70's?" Just give us the cream of the crop and spare us the "look-at-the-cool-obscure-crap-on-my-list" masturbation, aight?
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We just keep the sodomy to a minimum, but it is still there...
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Balebackers: Birthed from the Baleback which happened in January 2009 and led by DGDB. A random Bale talkback of the day happened right before the Balerant went public and it was pretty good, lasted a good while. Was innocent before turning into a downright uncomfortable shrine to its title person. I was a part of this and it was fun, but got delusioned with it, i mean this shit got downright zealot for the Lisping Beak Nose.
Pedalbackers, like the Baleback except without that horseshit praising of something or an agenda. It's like the Delta of Animal House while the Baleback is the Omega This is actually the anti-Baleback in that everything about Nolanverse is slammed and with good order. Subtitles has become the championing torch bearer of this one. Also covers multiple talkbacks, wherever a Nolanverse talkback pops up Pedalbackers will be there. Dubbed from the title of the first one with Gary Oldman backpeddling on his own comments about something after literally blowing apart some toilet stalls at comiccon from a massive shitbomb drop. -
as a longtime Troll-slayer, I am saddened to not even be an honorable mention on your list. but kudos all the same for the hilarity!
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...whatever it takes to maintain the fighting esprit de corps.All faiths are welcome.
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Honestly these guys just blur together for me. Asimov though takes the cake for sheer ferocity for the same tedium. Replying to virtually every post in a thousand post talkback? Even if the english language or logic is being shredded and killed the shit out of in your wake, this guy just conitnues to move through the colossal clusterfuck he's in, he'll steamroll through Jigsaw's puzzle rooms in a jiffy even if he comes out a piece of asparagus.
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...you are much too good to me...thank you....but if I get up to accept my award and a bucket of pig's blood falls on my head I'm setting this whole place on fire with my mind.
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Every time I log on here, it's all fuck this fuck that Megan Fox's asshole, tight, fuck shit. Avatar sucks. Fuck.
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interesting choices, great fun to read, bravo!
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Respect.
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Dec 02, 2009 7:27:04 PM CST
"Assumed a "fall of satan" style god complex in the process"
by stuntcock mike
I'm totally stealing that shit for a rolling banner.
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...your Queen For a Day column...especially the less obvious choices. I've got nothing against professional models, but like the random hot pastry chefs and librarians you dig up.
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Forrest Gump, not Beaks.
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Sorry man, but your taste in movies is outrageously bad. There are guilty pleasures, and then there is having "Miami Vice" ahead of the likes of "Adaptation" on your Top 100 films of the decade. There is bad taste, and then there is implying that "Children of Men" won't even make your Top 100 films of the decade.
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I know were the POLAR BEAR FROM LOST is
by AsimovLives Dec 2nd, 2009
03:59:43 PM
Up Jar Jar Abrams's ass. It was an easy fit.Did you pull your tongue away in time, or is it now attatched to Abrams Prostate. Bon Appétit you caprine cocksucker. ALINO
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this will be the last time anyone can pick out 100 movies in a decade and call them "top". We are so close to Ass the Movie its not even funny. T5, Transformers2, GI Joe, 2012, Avatard... its all leading to one final solution: ASS! i dont even care anymore.
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Dec 02, 2009 7:33:05 PM CST
Don't forget the OLEG crew. These guys knwaed on some fucking sk
by stuntcock mike
Professionals all.
Spandau Belly
Grammaton Cleric Binks
ironic name
Bloo
travis-dane
caruso_stalker
SALUTE!
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Big tits and big ass are preferred and almost always posted.
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Fuck the edit button.
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In seriousness..which is probably the wrong tone for this thing at all...
Props to all the COC guys, and Dan and the AIBN guys of course.
Gotta draw attention to one I didn't see mentioned: Hawaian Organ Donor,who could hold a great conversation about foreign film before launching into some nutjob like Coughlin's Law. You can catch him over at AIBN now.
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I don't remember which ones were from which decade, but I think I got most of em here, and am fairly sure of their origins. Your mileage may vary, but for your consideration....
10- "Capt Lou Albano was supposed to play the villain but he got snowed in somewhere."
9- Harry's critique of Wrong Turn, that it needed more "dead raped deer."
8- Set report from Grindhouse, Harry was uncomfortable with some joke or something, but "I looked over and Kurt Russell was laughing, so it was ok."
7- Some random talkbacker complaining that "real dragons are intelligent and talk."
6- Gary Sinise is an undercover android "...WITH A BOMB IN HIS RIBCAGE!!!"
5- Elson Gunn's weekly recap describes Dog Soldiers as Black Hawk Down... "but with WEREWOLVES!"
4- The sidebar ads inform us that Keira Knightley is "the sexiest tomboy beanpole" alive.
3- Harry infamously compares Blade 2 to cunnilingus involving "chocolate covered pussy juice."
2- Fake script review of an early draft of "Intimidation Game" where the reviewer can't believe that "GORDON CHEETS ON HIS WIFE AND HAS A BEER!"
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I will never forget this guy's impressive and epic list of alternate Bond titles preceding the last movie's title question. Some choices ones include:
The Curse of Blofeld's Pussy
You Only Die Once Again...Tomorrow
Telly Savalas Shot my Bitch that Bald Fuck
Look Me In The Eyes When I Shoot My Load
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"Grando Calrissian"- Lando's uncle who was supposed to be in the prequels (not really a catch phrase, but a fucking legendary moment in AICN history).
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As I stated before, there are a great many people I forgot, your good self being one of them. Perhaps there should be a top 25 list. Not that I'm attempting to curry favor, but cloudrider, ebonic_plague, ace_of_wands, lighst0rmer, drMorbius, Mandrakeroot, rogueleader66, BSB, Cobra__Kai, DVader, and many others, should also be added to the Hall of Fame.BMacSmith, would you like to be added to my Cunt File, simply for lumping 'Avatard' (which you haven't even seen) in with those other detestable pieces of shit you mentioned? Fuckin' ass!!
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on two women.
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Finished reading this tb, I think that other guy was joking, TrannyFelcher was what I started calling Trannyformer in th Avatar Trailer TB 10-23-09ish. Not that I'm looking for any kind of recognition. Just the fact Jack.
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And the black lightsabres, and Walken playing Darth Evilbad or something. People literally lost their minds that day. Epic in every sense. God, was that really over 10 years ago?
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Here are my personal choices for the 25 "best" films circa 2000-2009. I'm sure many of you will disagree with me but hey, that's fine. These are just the films I find I go back to time and time again.
25. Speed Racer
I make no apologies for this. My eyes were glued to the screen
the entire time and I had a blast watching it. The final lap of
the last race in absolutely exhilerating. Funny, a lot on here will think this is the equivalent of butting Bring It On at #100, haha.
24. Ong Bak
Hands down the most badass martial arts film since the days of Bruce Lee and opened the floodgates for some really great Thai films to make it over here to the states. BTW, I loved part 2.
23. Beowulf
The best 3D experience ever. I love everything about this version of the story, changes be damned. BEEEEEEEEOOOOOWUUULLLLLF!!!!
22. The Fountain
A film that has really grown on me and Hugh Jackman's best performance IMO. It's a gorgeous film filled with emotion and imagination and a truly amazing ending.
21. Idiocracy
Brilliant (altho a bit butchered) A hillarious warning of things to come (or already have?) President Camacho alone makes it a classic.
20. The Life Aquatic
I know some people have issues with this film, but for me it just works. It forever cemented me as a Wes Anderson fan.
19. PotC:CotBP
Admit it, you all thought it would be a disaster, yet it turned out to be one of the best adventure movies in decades. Fuck the shitty sequels, the first film is fun as hell.
18. Big Fish
To me, this is the last good film Tim Burton made, and is the one film that has made me shed tears. I love the final scene between Edwards Jr and Sr.
17. Tideland
I don't care what anyone says, this is one of Gilliam's best films to date and an incredible modern fairy tale.
16. Battle Royale
Just crazy badass and fun as fuck. It may be rough, but it's got guts, and guts is enough.
15. Rec.
Scary as shit and IMO the only successful handheld movie to date.
14. Letters From Iwo Jima
Heartbreaking and brutal. The grenade scene... the grenade scene...
13. Lost In Translation
I've heard people who claim this is a slap in the face to Japanese culture. As someone who has spent time there, it isn't. It's a surreal love letter wrapped in brilliant story about loneliness and identity. Murray's performance is fucking incredible.
12. Napoleon Dynamite
Flame me forever, I don't care. I can watch this movie endlessly. Underneath its somewhat bizarre aesthetic is a really brilliantly performed story about individualism, family and friendship.
11. Audition
Best horror movie since The Shining IMO.
10. The Dark Knight
The closest thing to a perfect superhero movie yet. Say what you will, as a huge Batman fan, I was very happy with it. Hyperbole aside, it's fucking solid.
9. House of Flying Daggers
Something about this movie just does it for me. I love the chemistry of the actors, the color pallet, the pacing, music. To me, this is the best of the trilogy, despite its shortcomings.
8. Fulltime Killer
Absolutely awesome HK thriller the likes that hasn't been seen since A Better Tomorrow 1 & 2 or Hard Boiled.
7. Solaris
It took me a while to see but I'll be damned if this film doesn't reach near "2001" levels of greatness. Sci Fi at its best.
6. 2046
Fucking gorgeous in every sense and never shies away from the ugly side of human relationships, while still embracing the beauty of them. The production value rivals the best Hollywood has to offer and the cast is flawless.
5. The Wrestler
This film will stick with me for the rest of my days. Hardcore as hell yet heartbreakingly emotional. Long live Randy "The Ram" Robinson
4. Where The Wild Things Are
I don't care how new it is, this is the best "kids" film I've seen since the days of The Dark Crystal and I absolutely loved it.
3. The Incredibles / Up (Tie)
Flawless. The perfect movies for anyone of any age. The Incredibles to me is Pixar's masterpiece, however I've absolutely fallen in love with Up. If you don't feel something after those opening 10 minutes, just go read binary code, because you cannot be human.
2. Children of Men
Fucking genre perfection. I remember leaving the theater thinking it was a given for Best Picture... then I remembered the academy is absolutely full of shit. CHILDREN OF FUCKING MEN!!!!!
1. Oldboy
Cinematic perfection and my undisputed all-time favorite movie. I can't think of a single thing I would change and I love it more and more every time I watch it. 15 years... 15 years....
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I took part, but not nearly as fanatically as some of the others. Also, how can BobOrci not be one of the best talkbackers ever?
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In the Annals of AICN. Credit where it's due.
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the dark knight sucked. bring it on was amazing.kathy bates owns this decade!AVATAR!
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Hell, it was one of the best action films of the past 10 years.
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so 1970 was part of the 60's decade? cool
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Speed Racer is indeed great. Kudos for picking it. Also, bonus points for putting Letters From Iwo Jima on there. It could be argued that it is Eastwood's best directorial film.
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And thanks for the mention up above, it warms the very cockles of my heart...*snif*
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That's about the first sensible thing I've ever heard you say. Casino Royale was indeed a great movie, and should easily be in the top 50 at least. Also - Memento, Eastern Promises, Pan's Labyrinth, LOTR (all), Zodiac, Audition, Kingdom of Heaven (DC only), Munich.
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...are always incomplete. Especially over a decade of talkback, but I can't believe I'd leave out guys like HOD, BadMrWonka, Xiphos, DrMorbius, Tom_Bodet, Series7, conspiracy... I wouldn't still be here if you guys weren't consistently hilarious. And if it were possible, I'd buy you all a round. Yack and Flick, cheers back to you guys... I mean, fuck us all anyway for the limber-dicked cocksuckers we are, but thanks for the props and for helping to keep this place fun.
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Glad to hear you enjoyed it too :) I agree that Eastwood knocked Letters out of the park. I give it major points for not romanticizing war at all.
@lockesbrokenleg: I almost put the Bourne Trilogy on that list (I much prefer them to the new Bond films) but I agree that Casino Royale was a great movie. Just isn't a favorite of mine is all.
@Turd: Oh shit, I thought Memento was '99. Definitely deserves to be on any best of list. -
call it the 'Nys (pronounced En-ees).
You have can have categories like.
Best/ (Worst) Toll
Best all capslock freakout
Best questioning the heterosexuality of another talkbacker
The nominations thread would be a best of the year gut busting triumph.
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"Every time I log on here, it's all fuck this fuck that Megan Fox's asshole, tight, fuck shit. Avatar sucks. Fuck." I'm not even kidding when I say that might be your all time best post. Even funnier in when read by a speech simulator. Accurate, too.
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and another russian mafia is delicately formed.
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Right back atcha man. Respect.And lest we forget...TurdOnTheRunebonic_plagueSal_BandoToadKillerDog
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...and some very bold and stinky cat shit. Respect either way.I was particularly happy to see TIDELAND, BIG FISH and THE INCREDIBLES/UP.I need to see BIG FISH again to see if it holds up, but I deeply dug it at the time.
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Dec 02, 2009 8:20:47 PM CST
Here's my unofficial top 10 of the 2000s- subject to change
by yackbacker
I can only rate movies I've seen, so someone can say "What about AMELIE?" and I'll say "Can't tell ya!" And one more caveat- all of these movies clicked with me on an intellectual and emotional level above all others-- that's what got them on the list. Here it is:
THE DARK KNIGHT
CHILDREN OF MEN
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
25TH HOUR
SHAUN OF THE DEAD
GANGS OF NEW YORK
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
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If forced to pick one movie above all others, I'd go with CHILDREN OF FUCKING MEN.
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yikes glad i didnt see any of those sequels than.
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...two minor movies that I loved in the 00's. Probably not on anyone's top ten, but I love them.
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I can argue with you about Gangs and A.I. (and I haven't seen Shaun), but all-in-all, that's a pretty damn good top ten (I can only argue with 30% of it!).
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Hey, what do you think was the 81st best movie of the 70's? For me it has to be Giant Spider Invasion. I think that it is better than 82 which is Angel's Revenge.
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Firstly, I gotta get this out of the way - Drag Me to Hell was written by Sam and IVAN Raimi, not Ted. It's a big differnce to a Raimi geek like me. Secondly, Chopper and Adapatation should be WAY higher. I cant believe Miami Vice is even on this list, let alone higher than those. And Talladega Nights was a turd, Wet Hot is definitely better. By a LOT.
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Because it's fuckin' amazing!
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@Flicka: Glad to meet another Tideland fan! Haha, I'm curious to know what you disagree with on there. It's been a while since I had an honest to god movie discussion/debate. I think Big Fish holds up very well. Billy Crudup's performance is a little weak early in the film but goddamn that man comes alive in the finale. I'm serious about that ending making me cry. Loved it to death.
@Yack: Great list. I can't believe after ranting about TWBB just a few posts ago I forgot to put it on my own, haha. Can't say I care too much for M&C though, but that's just me. Fucking props on GoNY. Love that movie. -
In terms of rewatchability, nothing beats it.
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It's like priapism for opinions...
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I'd also place I am Legend on this list. I really liked that.
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One of the fake stories that Moriarty stood his ground on and adamantly stated as being true. Same with Ep.I being called "Balance of the Force".
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Thanks guys- yeah if I can score a 70% or higher with you people, that's not a bad result. I like the movies I mention for different reasons. I think CHILDREN OF MEN holds the title of best of the decade because it did something I haven't seen in a movie in a long time- it utilized its futuristic/sci-fi elements as a background element, not a gimmick. Like the moving billboards and bus ads- aesthetically I loved that shit. What made it work even better was that it was in the corner of the frame, not front and center, like Lucas likes to shoot things (a pooping CG animal, for instance). And the story and characers in CoM all represent elements of humanity. AND it's got Michael FUCKING Caine!!!
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@Soylent: I just watched Shaun the other day on Bluray and I can't explain why, but it just didn't vibe with me like it used to. Maybe I've seen it too many times but I started getting bored when they all got to the Winchester. Sort of bogs things down and the characters start to act a little "silly" if you ask me. Regardless it's still a great movie, tho I'd classify it as a comedy over horror.
@Lockes: I enjoyed I am Legend far more than I expected. However the CGI "vampires" just really put me off on ever seeing it again, but the first hour is great. Even Big Willie isn't that bad in it. -
Rachel Bilson does a sex scene and McG fucking almost-ALMOST- redeems himself in this funny clip. His Terminator ideas are fucking horrendous, but the guy's pretty funny. http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/12/02/rachel-bilsons-deleted-sex-scene-video/
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Yeah, I hear you there. But, I was impressed that it didn't turn into some shoot em up Vampire movie. It was very good.
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You hit the nail on the head. I was just talking with a friend the other day about how movies have fallen in love with their own ideas and instead of giving us real characters who live in these worlds, they spend 3/4 of the movie explaining every little stupid detail. Like that 3D Tetris-type game that kid is playng in CoM.. what is it? Who the fuck cares! Children of Men really does a phenomenal job of putting the audience right in it's world and just running with it.
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It's on my list and it stays, I can see how it might get too familiar since I've watched it way too many times myself but I still enjoy it immensely. How'd that Blu-ray look?
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...would be SPEED RACER, BEOWULF, PIRATES, and NAPOLEON DYNAMITE...but I admit that SPEED RACER I haven't seen, PIRATES I enjoyed whenever Depp was on screen, BEOWULF...I despise Zemeckis' mo-cap-crap, and DYNAMITE was amusing if drunk.I always say TIDELAND is like GORMENGHAST meets LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE...I've never seen anything like it. It's not always pretty and it's not always fun, but it digs into what it was like to be inside a kid's head like nothing before or since...pure genius, and visually spectacular.
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He really tried, ya know? Poor bastard. He just doesn't get what makes the Terminator work. Giving Reese a mute little kid sidekick just proves that beyond all doubt.
Locke: I agree, it had a good amount of self restraint, minus the Mustang and Shrek commercials. I would forgive the CGI vamps if they didn't pussy out on the ending.
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LOL. Since this ain't the Oscars (tm) I'd group the three together ("That still counts as ONE!") and put it in the top 10, definitely. Nine hours of awesomeness with only a few missteps (cough dwarf tossing cough) hardly worth mentioning.
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I can totally come up with 100. This is gonna take a couple days. XD
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...you need one real wild card though...SHAUN OF THE DEAD doesn't count as a risk around here.
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Who really gives a shit about ranking, I like these lists to catch up on some possibly decent films I might have missed... Also, Miami Vice gets better and better every time I watch it. Mann is a god
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that is all
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Trust me, I still enjoy SotD. It's pure quality. I think it's just the ending that gets me. The characters just go bug nuts and start making dumb choices.. but then again it is a zombie movie, haha. The bluray looks good, but the DVD I think suffices. It's not exactly a heavy FX film.
LOL, I KNEW those would be the ones you'd mention. What can I say? I have a soft spot for them. I took my brother to see Speed Racer opening day and we both loved it. Saw it again in Imax the next week and have since bought the Blu. Is it flawed? Yeah, it has a few dips in the narrative and I'm sure corporate stock battles don't make everyone dizzy w/ excitement, but holy shit, that last race alone was brilliant. If you haven't seen it Flicka, give it a chance. You might be surprised :)
I saw Napoleon when it was still in it's limited release and had a blast. It just cracks me up and I think it has more to it than people give it credit for.
Pirates has a few annoying things about it. Bloom is weak in it but Depp, Knightly and Rush are really great in it. Plus like I said, I think it was one of the better adventure films in a long time.
Now Beowulf... I'm sorry but I love it. I think a story like that is something that Mo-Cap can really bring to life. I love that it takes it's time and gives us sonnets and actual lore, not just sword fights and stuff like that. -
District 9 is #2. Not me mind you, but some...
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THE LIVES OF OTHERS. That movie is near perfection.
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Ah fuck me, that's another that should have been on the list...sigh... That movie floored me.
I'm a pretty big Mann fan myself, but I admit Miami Vice drags in some spots, but it really isn't all that bad. Not at all, really. I think people have issues both with the actors and the fact that Mann changed the tone from the show. Plus, it needed way more Phil Collins. -
Dec 02, 2009 9:24:00 PM CST
I know it's not in the 2000s, but I think Mann's best movie is
by yackbacker
THE INSIDER. You thought I was going to say HEAT, didn't ya? I like that movie a lot, but THE INSIDER was a harder movie to pull off, and Mann fucking nailed it. AND somehow Al Pacino turned in his first non-overacting performance in decades! Professional!
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Isn't it interesting how a lot of us go for the same bunch of directors' films. And Oliver Stone is not one of them!
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That and Talladega Nights are the only 2 oddballs, so far. Nice list Mr. Beaks.
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...I realize that makes me a sentimental girl with a hair conditioner fetish...but I don't care.
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MOHICANS is an excellent film. And a great fucking score too. Hmmm. best film scores of the past ten years... must go write a list.
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You know, I've never seen The Insider, but you've convinced me with nothing more than "Al Pacino turned in his first non-overacting performance in decades". This I gotta see. You gotta admit, Heat fucking RULES tho.
Oh man, Oliver Stone. Where to begin? I actually really liked W but I can't see myself watching it again for a couple more years at least. Alexander was a total mess, no question. Just sloppy as all hell and I don't think the film even knew what the hell it was trying to do.
Ridley Scott has been sliding into "Stone" territory lately too if you ask me. I really loved American Gangster but other than that, everything post-Matchstick Men just hasn't done it for me.
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Dec 02, 2009 9:40:40 PM CST
shogun, I give Ridley Scott a little more credit than Stone
by yackbacker
Yes, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN was flawed, but not nearly as screwed up a shitstain as ALEXANDER. And A GOOD YEAR was his venture into romantic storytelling. Mind you, it was about a lot of rich Europeans, so you don't feel empathy for anyone onscreen, but I don't despise the movie at all.
And as for Tony Scott- homeboy peaked with CRIMSON TIDE. TRUE ROMANCE was his best movie, but it was great because of the script, not his direction. I did like MAN ON FIRE, but I've never watched it after my first sitting. And I doubt I ever will. -
Dec 02, 2009 9:47:05 PM CST
Mann has had an astonishing fall from grace
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
All his 90's movies were excellent. This decade has been a disaster. Public Enemies and Ali were dull. Collateral and Miami Vice were terrible. Oliver Stone has gone down the crapper as well.Scott has done two great movies - KOH Director's Cut and Gladiator. Two OK ones - Black Hawk Down and American Gangster. And two stinkers - A Good Year and Hannibal. Haven't seen Matchstick Men and Body of Lies; they don't look too interesting.Spielberg - Munich was great. Catch Me If You Can - fun. Minority Report; AI - flawed, frustratingly so. War of the Worlds and Terminal - average at best. KOTCS - disaster - and all Spielberg's doing, not Lucas the whipping boy. Scorsese - GONY - bleh. Ruined by Harvey Weinstein too, despite Marty's protestations to the contrary. The Departed - one of the most over-rated films of the decade. The Aviator - best of the bunch; still not great. Ditch DiCrapio, for fuck's sake. I could go on through other directorial resumes of the 2000's, but I won't.
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I've never taken the time to watch Kingdom of Heaven. I hear really good things about the director's cut, so maybe I should give it a chance. I can't say I have any interest in A Good Year.
Tony Scott's direction is definitely a weaker part of True Romance. Nothing to it really but maybe that's a strength. I can think of 10 directors off the top of my head who would take that same script and turn it into a fucking shitpile.
Man On Fire is pretty awesome, but Scott lost said self control on that film. He went full-retard with Domino tho. I admit, when I first so Domino, I thought it was a fun flick. Then I saw it again on DVD and realized it was fucking stupid, haha. -
You views are not valid. AND to those saying the decade ends next year December are morons.
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I will make one concession from the get-go: Cameron Diaz damn near ruined the movie. But aside from that, the revenge tale is exceptionally well-done. I love the fact that Amsterdam loved Bill as a father figure and hated him for being the man that killed his real father. That is the central aspect of the movie to me, and it made for a great film. And who else has done a movie in that period of NY's history? Scorsese could have done a better job, I'm sure. But Daniel Day Lewis and DiCaprio put that movie other the top for me.
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Man on Fire would have been great if he'd actually kept the camera still. He puts too much flashy crap in his films. Actually, TR, Crimson Tide and Last Boy Scout were all good, but the rest is Bruckheimer junk (BHC 2/Days of Thunder/Top Gun) or just absolute junk and generic thrillers - Domino, The Fan, Spy Game.
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Fantastic movie.
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10. I am Legend 9. Pirates of the Caribbean 8. Casino Royale 7. Star Trek 6. The Aviator 5. World Trade Center 4. Spider Man 2 3 Fellowship of the Ring 2 Iron Man 1 Dark Knight
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Mind you, he's only worked for half of the past decade, but I want to put HEIST out there- not as a top 10 film, but as a movie that deserves praise in general.
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Scott's best film of the decade. FACT.
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I felt that final scene of Munich was about the only ending Spielberg got right in the last 10 years. All his films collapse in their second halves now (except for Indy 4, which was garbage from the get-go).Gangs of New York would have been great if a)Weinstein had not cut an hour from it - painfully obvious from the choppy last act, and b)if Diaz AND Leo had not been cast. I've never bought DiCaprio in tough guy roles. He always seems to have a perpetually baby face no matter how old he gets, as well as a very earnest and off-putting attitude, like he's trying so damn hard to be taken seriously. No one can deny Day Lewis' greatness as Bill the Butcher, though. I kind of wish Scorsese had made the film in the early 80's, with DeNiro as Amsterdam and The Clash on the soundtrack, as was originally planned. I think the younger Marty would have given it the street-smart energy it needed back then, instead of the obvious, oscar-baiting grandeur of the existing film.
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WORLD TRADE CENTER? I admit to never having seen it, but I'm curious why you liked it so much.
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For an Oliver Stone movie it was pretty self restrained. Nic Cage's performance was excellent and never over the top. I really thought the characters (based on real life people) were well done.
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Spielberg's fall has been the worst of the bunch. The man has had his fair share of disasters... COUGHhookCOUGH... but lately it seems like I just can't tell what he's going for.
WotW was absolute shit. The Terminal borderlines Forrest Gump levels of sappy bullshit and it really dull to be honest. Minority Report is cute the first time you see it but it hasn't aged well at all.
He needs to ditch that over-exposed style he's gotten so fond of. A.I. started that mess, but at least that movie really tried to live up to Kubrick (tho I admit, it fails) It still had some really great ideas and images.
I think that when Kubrick died, Spielberg just lost all self control. KotCS would never have happened if he were alive today. Both The Berg and The Beard would have been embarrassed to show it to him. Same w/ Eps I-III.
Scorsese just hasn't found his tone yet in the new mediums available. The same could be said for Mann. I loved GoNY but agree that The Departed is over-rated. Infernal Affairs was much better.
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Because he cast Tone Loc in HEAT. AND IT FUCKING WORKED!
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Bubba Ho Tep.....not Bring it On (!) That said...cool list Beaks...I agree wholeheartedly...except Tnights and the Michael Mann stuff. Good job.
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Of course DeNiro in his prime puts 99.99999% of all other actors to shame. The version you refer to is a lost movie, for certain. The GANGS we got hit the right emotions for me. I agree completely that Scorsese could have done better, but you wanna talk about Oscar-bait? THE AVIATOR is nothing but that in my book- Christ, it has Alan fucking Alda in it! That guy is GOOD!
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WORLD TRADE CENTER stuck out on your list because I believe it's the only movie you mention that didn't bank over $200 million.
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I think you'll enjoy it. It doesn't have a sad ending like you think, the ending is pretty great. Also, the use of CG is interesting, because the beginning of the film we see the towers when Cage is driving into the city.
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I havent seen WTC either. I'm amazed to see it on a list honestly.
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FOTR & TDK are my #1 & #2. I just have to figure out the other 98.
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People on movie sites need to stop doing fucking best of lists. All it does it make you look like simpering jackasses.
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I knew it had been shortened but is there really another full hour of footage floating around out there? Jesus christ, that couldn't have been cheap! The Weinstein's need to stop fucking with people's films, man. Any chance we'll get a restored DC?
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Agreed about Spielberg. He was always hit and miss in my opinion, but when he was on he was really ON. I wish he'd get his second(third?) wind, I really do. Perhaps since he's entering the last act of his career he will - though his upcoming projects, Lincoln and Interstellar aside, don't look that promising. Tintin? Indy 5 (shudder)? Remakes like Harvey (thank hell Oldboy was canned)? Not sure I agree about Spielberg and Lucas shitting the bed in Kubrick's absence, though - surely The Berg would have been embarassed to show the Old Master Hook and The Lost World, too?Scorsese actually DOES have some interesting projects lined up. Silence is another long-gestating pet project of his, too, just like GONY and Last Temptation of Christ. Those types of affairs have the potential to be either masterpieces or turn into flawed though interesting messes (see Jackson's Kong!). Also, his epic movie about the music business sounds interesting (The Long Play), plus possible collaborations with deNiro again (such as I Heard You Paint Houses). I would like to see another collaboration by him, DeNiro, and Pesci again - I think that Casino is possibly his most under-rated film, even though it drags on a bit, and was seen to be a retread of Goodfellas(superficially so IMO).
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Just saying, since it's from 2000 it's barely remembered as part of the decade.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:21:27 PM CST
If anybody gets director of the decade, I think it should be
by yackbacker
Christopher Nolan. MEMENTO, INSOMNIA, BATMAN BEGINS, THE PRESTIGE and THE DARK KNIGHT. That's a pretty good run. Who has had a better decade?
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Well, I was going to put in ROTS, but well, I liked Iron Man more. Sorry.
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I put it on my top 10 too because I thought it was Spielberg's darkest genre movie up until that point. I love the scope of the story- a lot of people hated the ending with the advanced AIs (a lot of folks thought they were aliens!). If you don't appreciate what the AIs at the end are all about, then this is not a movie for you. The whole idea of showing what humans leave behind after they are long dead was riveting to me. And some people saw the end with the revived mother as a cop-out, I thought it made the movie even more bitter-sweet. And there's a ton of Oedipal stuff to sort through A.I. as well. It's one of Spielberg's most layered and complex genre pictures.
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Haha wow, you're right. I wish I could have seen Kubrick's reaction to Hook. The Lost World is another disgrace, but a well meaning one. The source material wasn't much better anyways. The cast was lacking and it turned a smart concept into a stupid monster movie.
The day the Oldboy remake died rivals the first time I had sex. It was that good (or my first sexual experience was that bad, who's to say?)
Scorsese still has it in him, no doubt. I think he needs to do some non-pet projects again for a while to get the creative juices flowing again. Hopefully Shutter Island turns out well. The rest of the projects sound promising too. The world needs more Pesci regardless. That man chews scenery better anyone else working today (including Pacino, who has become a caricature of his former self) Casino is a great film and far from Goodfellas Light as you mentioned. Deniro needs to get on the ball himself. Godsend, anyone? -
High point of Finchers career before he botched it with button.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:33:59 PM CST
I think Harrison Ford and DeNiro have the same lobotomist
by yackbacker
Those guys have lost all verve and charisma. Ford has been so bad, it's making me reevaluate his earlier work to see if perhaps he has always been terrible (think about it for a sec- what has he done that was truly "great?"). DeNiro should qualify for disability assistance based on his shitty work of late.
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so far I've got ROTS at #36 but I got pooped out. I'm resting. Making lists is tough. And Beaks wrote paragraphs and everything.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:39:30 PM CST
...Yack, so, so fucking sad...but true. About lobotomies...
by flickapoo
...and all.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:43:00 PM CST
...lockes, interesting list....would you consider swapping...
by flickapoo
...UNITED 93 for WORLD TRADE CENTER?If I don't get off of here Mrs. FlickaPoo is going to kill me.
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Dec 02, 2009 10:44:59 PM CST
DeNiro just does films now so he can finance
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
his Tribeca film production company and pay for the Italian restaurants he owns. All went south for that guy after the one-two punch of Heat and Casino. Although it could certainly be argued that everything after Midnight Run was a climb down and didn't have that riveting De Niro style he exhibited in the 70's and 80's. Ford went belly up at around the same time, too (94/95). He was never a truly great actor, but he was still a good one and had charisma to boot - a true movie star. Han Solo (in IV and V anyway - not the neutered sap in Jedi) and Indy (again mostly in the first 2 films) are undeniably great iconic performances. Obviously, Blade Runner as well. Even American Grafitti. The Mosquito Coast was a great non-genre performance. But he's a tired old husk of an actor now.
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...PINOCCHIO style "real boy" ending.
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It's probably one of the funniest movies of the decade. I personally like SHAUN better, but TEAM AMERICA is brilliant. Definitely top 30 of the last 10 years for me.
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I haven't seen United 93, yet, sorry.
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great fucking films...watch those two films back to back! watch you heart melt! watch you recant for the shit you said about speilberg because of INDY 4!
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i had completely forgotten that movie existed. it wasnt bad, it was just forgettable.
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in mosquito coast and WITNESS...great fucking acting...indy 3 and jedi werent bad either..just different facets--he became the comic relief..
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Excellent insight- those movies to parallel one another a lot. Heh... fucking guy just blew my mind.
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Dec 02, 2009 11:10:44 PM CST
I am disgusted by the preamble of Beaks list...
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
Apparently 3D, digital and performance capture are "limiting technologies". What luddite bullcrap - they are storytelling possibilities and enhancements to the filmmaking process, if in the right hands and used properly. We're slowly getting there. Did this fool use to be a talkbacker? Figures. Pretentious blowhard.
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Dec 02, 2009 11:13:19 PM CST
...I still say A.I. is PINOCCHIO...interesting comparison...
by flickapoo
...to EMPIRE OF THE SUN though. I'm going to have to think on that. And yes, INDY 4 is an abomination, but Spielberg has earned himself half a dozen get out of jail free cards....
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Was still quite good, but yeah, I feel he had his balls cut off, and was not that interested in the roles anymore. More lighthearted than the badass he was in New Hope/Empire and Raiders/Doom. In fact, his Solo/Jones performances mirror each other. Establishing the character in the first entry of each trilogy, and then taking it to the next level in both sequels (or prequel in doom's case). Ford is the eptiome of macho cool in Empire and Doom, as cool as Connery as Bond. Then the third films in each were a sort of watered down, more comical depiction of both characters, with the un-PC elements removed.
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TEAM AMERICA: FUCK YEAH!
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Nolan for the win!
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One of my top 10 as well.
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...happens to the best of us. He got more interested in his real life and started coasting...I wish him the best.I'd love to see one more great kick ass old guy performance from him though. I was convinced that a new INDY was going to be it...I was very wrong.
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Ya never know, the old dog just may have a few tricks...
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Even Malkovitch and Law map nicely.
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Dec 02, 2009 11:27:46 PM CST
You can see Ford's career implode right around...
by the_shogun_gunslinger
Air Force One. Ho-ly SHIT.
Follow that gem up with 6 Days 7 Nights and BOOM! Like a neutron star.
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Something about Mexican illegals. It's getting to the point where Mark Hamill won't return FORD's phone calls.
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seriously, you are like that fat drunk friend who shows up at the bar hoping to run into some friends to tell them "hey, wanna hear my top 100 movies of the decade"..and as soon as you say"ricky bobby"..everyone gets up and leaves..lol..You've apparently only seen 102 movies in 10 years
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LOL...jesus this just gets better
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That poor dude. I have so much repsect for him. He is still the best Joker every. You can hear that voice in your head every time you think of the Joker. I'd LOVE to see an animated version of The Killing Joke w/ Conroy and Hamill.
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...I saw this film with some close friends, all film buffs. I knew it'd gotten mixed reviews & that its director did The Cell (not a fan), but was open-minded and expected to admire the cinematography, at least. And I did, too...just nothing else about the film (ok, the little girl is fine). I came out with everyone aglow, best-of-the-year talk around me, and feeling totally out-of-step with everyone. Most uncomfortable moviegoing experience in a decade (that's pretty precise since the previous winner in that sweepstakes was the opposite: seeing The Matrix & loving it with 2 people who didn't get it at all.)I still can't pin down quite what I hated about it, though it was quite a strong feeling. I was wondering if you, or anyone else who liked it, might tell me what made it such a favorite of yours; I'm genuinely curious. Thanks in advance.
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Conroy and Hamill have captured the comic-book quality of those characters perfectly. THE KILLING JOKE really should be animated. Fucking excellent idea.
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Guys and gals I am fully aware of how annoying these kind of posts are, by for a class (Media 2.0) at the University of Memphis I have had to create a blog and must try and drive traffic to it. I figure the best way to do this is be 100 percent honest. I discuss movies on this blog in the voice of Steven Seagal. You can visit comment, flame it do whatever. http://thereelseagal.blogspot.com/
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Dude, write a celeb gossip blog and make your tags: Tiger Woods, cheating, affair. You will have much more traffic than this Steven Seagal gag.
BUT, if you honestly want to do this Seagal thing, don't make such obvious jokes. Seagal talking about ninja stuff? Dude, you should have Seagal talking about Tiger Woods or baking Christmas cookies. That's the absurd shit you should be aiming for, not Seagal talking about movies. Good luck with your project. -
Have you had a chance to play Arkham Asylum? They do a fantastic job in that. Great to see them tackle a "darker" storyline. I've always respected WB and DC for letting them do different takes on the characters without making them stay too kid-friendly. Mask of the Phantasm is another prime example.
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Just one sitting, it was pretty amazing. I'm not a gamer, my last system was a Gamecube and that was solely to play the Rogue Squadron series. But WB Premiere is an interesting production house- they are turning out some good stuff (far better than Marvel's partnership with Lionsgate) and I think there's room for a proper, dark Batman tale with those two actors. I also read BATMAN BEYOND is coming back, which I welcome.
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Take it easy, bro. Love the 'gull pic. Fucking silly.
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Hell. Yes. I support that 100%. The DC of BB:RotJ was pretty damn awesome. Never had a problem w/ Bruce being an Oracle type character guiding a successor. I've wanted to play with the idea of a future version of Gotham where Bruce and Co. have been dead for decades and Batman has become more of an urban legend than anything. Would love to see someone take a premise like that and really run with it.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:04:15 AM CST
Ok, so, I've spent a few hours on the massive ego masturbation o
by rhuragh
...and I ended up with 160 odd movies (for a 100 best list, yeah, I overshot a little). I won't bore you with the whole list, but, I'll at least give you the top 10 (or thereabouts). Thus, in no particular order, we have the list: 2046
Children of Men
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Good Night, and Good Luck
Lost in Translation
Lust, Caution
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
No Country for Old Men
Serenity (yeah, I know, I am an unrepentant lover of Firely)
Spirited Away
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
The Lives of Others
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Pianist
There Will Be Blood I didn't really pick these as specifically a top 10 (15, hah), these are just the films that I ended up rating as a ten (of ten, of course) after rating the whole batch of 160 films. A ten, of course, is a rather high bar, as they then go up against films like Seven Samurai and The Godfather Pt. II. -
Yeah man, it's been fun. Glad you liked the pic, lol.
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shit is hot!
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booth after some dude and sniffing the kleenex or papertowel he used to wipe up his jizz.kathy bates!
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Rhuragh, that is an instant epic win right there, man. I had it in my top 10 as well. Love love love it.
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I know...I am absolutely captivated by every second of that film. It is absolutely beautiful.
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Hah, no. I do really enjoy "asian" cinema though. In the rest of that 160 film list you can find directors like Ang Lee, Chan-wook Park, Hayao Miyazaki, Je-gyu Kang, Joon-ho Bong, Ki-duk Kim, Kinji Fukasaku, Prachya Pinkaew, Satoshi Kon, Takashi Miike, Wong Kar-Wai, Yôji Yamada, Yôjirô Takita, Yung Chang, and Zhang Yimou. So, yeah, a lot of "asian" cinema in the list.
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Me too. I just watched it a few nights ago for the first time in probably a little over a year and I'm still in awe of it. The relationship between Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi could have been a whole film in itself and I love the mind games they play with each other. It's ridiculously true to life and shows just how crazy we are as a species, IMO Not to mention the actual scenes set in 2046. It's a masterpiece.
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I get the "are you asian?" question all the time, haha. Sounds like we have remarkably similar tastes.
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i'm telling you. it's a laugh riot. get it? she plays the PIANO!
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Oops.
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I'm guessing Piano = Penis.
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yummm bellyslapping waves. AVATAR!
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that is all
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like the instrument! pianos can't be artsy but they is sometime like musicy?!?! crazy face!
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Yeah, I have a hard time avoiding crying at the last scene between Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi. It is absolutely devastating.
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quit crying all the time! watch the Speed Cruise Control Sandra Bullock is grrrreat the girl with the pearl earrings! kattthhhhhhhhy battttttteeeeeeees
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Uh, thanks for the advice. I'll take that under advisement.
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I know. You end up really hating him for it. She was just as crazy as him tho, so I guess in the end their dominant personalities get the better of them. Also love the side story of the Daughter and the japanese man.
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If you have good weed, this is the best movie ever LOL
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also check out anything with gerard butler! 3000 was sex on my face! go forth! jeans! dominic west is a poor man's cary grant! but i will not have him over sidney who came to dinner any day not hungry and not equal but supperate! morgan freeman! not an obvious nelson! lou dobbs hides pennies in his jowls!
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I love that show. Inque is one of my fave villains. I thinq that show could've at least had a better finale, I think either it was that stupid zeta episode or with those snake people.
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maitlanr is taking you to school.
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NO AMAZON LINKS!
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Bring it on ? Piano Teacher ?? Ricky Bobby ??? Observe and Report ?!!? Ratatouille !??!If the list goes on like that, it'll be like EPIC FAIL.
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Motoko Kusanagi just laid down the pain on Beaks. He called him out on an Epic Fail. Ohhhh sheeeet, Beaks best not be showin' his face round here no mo'. Mmmmmmm-hmmmmmmm.
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It is coming back as a six issue comic mini-series in 2010. No new tv episodes are planned at this time.
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You know what pisses me right the fuck off? When foley artists match the visual of a guy drinking from a fast food soda cup by having the sound of the air-and-a-little-soda bubbling (*kooook - koooook - koook*) ... and then proceed to have that 'tiny little bit of soda left' last for like a half fucking hour in the scene, when there's no way that anybody could be draining 'the dregs' of the soda for that fucking long. Fucking foley idiots.
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... that they're sucking it through a straw. Left that out.
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AMOK! AMOK! AMOK! AMOK! AMOK!
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It's just flat out funny, and the Wilson brothers are great in it.
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was Owen in Old School???
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All those Baldwin and Wilson brothers. Hard to keep track of.
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What does the quote from The Incredibles have to do with the Kangaroo Jack photo? What do either have to do with the article? Am I missing something?
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isnt Alec giving up acting after 30 rock???
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isnt Alec giving up acting after 30 rock???
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the others on the list. Fuck Miami Vice seriously. Other than that, it's a pretty cool list so far.
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Dec 03, 2009 3:05:51 AM CST
While we are talking about fave Tbers, may I say Yackbacker
by industrykiller!
I thank some of you guys for mentioning me a couple of times, so I'd like to give a shout out to Yackbacker, whose posts I almost always click on when I enter a talkback. He's the kind of chap I feel like i'd love to sit down and have a coffee with while talking movies. And I still consider his epic about face on the first Transformers as one of the great Judas moments of AICN talkbacks (anyone who wasnt around the talkbacks for that film missed a WAR), and I mean that in the best possible way cause who else would admit they felt they were wrong after months of skepticism?
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Easily the most creative guy on the site and yep that does include Harry and his crew.
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then un-liked. And movies he vehemently disliked, and then liked.
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who play; Media Messiah and Dioxholster. You have played the roles fantastically and are always consistent, keep it up.
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but lets get some Bukowski novels made into movies...
Zach Galifianakis as "Hank"
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are you crying because mean old Jarv and DocP show you up to be the goat fingering cunt that we all know you are. Let me put it this way, even if you had the balls to admit to being loathsome turdbag M-o-M now, it's too late, I'd still fucking loathe you for being a pontificating, sanctimonious, pretentious, fanatical, dogmatic sack of cocks with all the charm and grace of a toxic waste spill. Now fuck off back to that third world country you call home and fistfuck one of your favourite "wives". Remember, shitbag, BAAAAAAA means "Yes".
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is tainted by the fact that you bought a ticket in advance to see "Mr. Alien, Mr. Predator and lots and lots of Mr and Mrs Dead People". So, whenever you lay your professor/ king brain/ big swinging balls goatfucking schtick down about what is and isn't acceptable to watch (how fucking dare you), I'm going to bitchslap you for it. Now go and visit Barfy's site. You know you want to: http://tinyurl.com/yeduj5a
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But his short story of Michael Bay shooting a load on Megan Fox's face but imagining it was his fans' might be the funniest thing I ever read here.
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your list will lose all credibility. And I'm glad to see A.I. get some love on the talkback. That is one of the most honest takes on the human condition that Hollywood has produced in the last 25 years.
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fuck me. I can't believe anyone likes it.
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of course Assimov and Star Trek, there is an unhealthy amount of hate there.
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You're talking about Anal Intercourse, right?
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In year released order:
Batoru rowaiaru (2000) - Battle Royale
Memento (2000)
Wo hu cang long (2000) - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) - Amelie
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) - Spirited Away
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Oldboy (2003)
Garden State (2004)
The Incredibles (2004)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
The Proposition (2005)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Children of Men (2006)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Obviously I am a fan of Star Wars, and thats why Revenge of the Sith got in there, as a huge fan I could overlook some of the flaws others couldn't.
If you count Kill Bill as one movie instead of two, Zodiac probably would have got in there, just over No Country for Old Men, so a 2007 film would have made it to the list.
2003 was obviously a great year for me.
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Dec 03, 2009 4:31:14 AM CST
Speaking of talkbackers, you know who I miss? Tom Cullen...
by stegman84
He was one of the only gimmick tagline talkbackers who always seemed to follow his gimmick up with a post that was actually worth reading. Too bad he got banned for saying that the only thing that Merrick contributed to the site was copyright infringement (during one of Merrick's youtube laded non-news news posts). Still there are still a few old school like talkbackers worth reading, like Yackbacker and DocPazuzu, amongst others, and a few actually creative talkback assholes to spice things up, none of whom I'll bother to namecheck here. Makes all the difference really when the main site is so damn vanilla so much of the time.
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for the top 10. Also Brokeback Mountain (yeah I said it) and I'm too lazy to list others at the moment.
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Kill Bill Vol 2? Star Wars? Garden State? I agree with a few of them, but christ, man.
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Nobody Knows
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Thanks for the honorable mention on the TBer lists(although I'm not sure how I qualify as being anything but a proud member of the CoC) and thanks to Dirk for all of the compliments. He still loves me!!! For my other 2 cents worth to anyone who might listen, DGDB is am awesome guy (and just like a brother to me) who's bad reputation is totally undeserved. Also, whoever insulted Fred should swallow their tongue. He's one of the nicest guys on the planet and VERY intelligent. Go Ninja Fred!
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Don't hold back.
kidding, thats what the lists are about, opinions, some movies lots of people connect with other movies only a few. But when you get that connection, its something you will
Would be interested to see your list.
Kill Bill Vol 2, some people found too slow after the pace of the first one, I enjoyed it but enjoyed the first part a little more, I know plenty of people that found it much better and more meaningful than the first.
Star Wars, explained that one already, I am far from objective when it comes to that movie.
Garden State, was definetely a movie, that you either really connected with or you were bored out of your mind, didn't see a lot of inbetween. I and a few of my friends have seen it 4+times, have a friend who walked out of the theater.
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Dec 03, 2009 5:50:12 AM CST
Also back to Talkbackers - special mention to the Lost guys
by miyamoto_musashi
I love Lost but I definetely don't have the dedication of the likes of Pa Burrows, Cheif Brody or Rizzo. They still have the last season 5 talkback going, and 6,000+ posts. They and others have shown real dedication to Lost over the last few years.
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Spirited Away would be an Honorouble Mention. I loathe Lost in Translation (certainly was on me) and ROTK. I'd probably have TDK as an HM as well. Top 10 will probably contain City of God, Lives of Others for 2 (along with battle royale, Requiem for a Dream and the descent) but I'm still toying with it.
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except he's got that sugar ball of puke Amelie on it.
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I've never spoken to him, but when I first saw his gimmick of speaking of himself in the 3rd person, a gag which ran it's course on that Seinfeld episode, I knew it would get old very fast. And it did. But what really weirded me out about his particular gimmick was, a couple times, I clicked on the top TB's that were up in the thousands of posts, basically inhabited by members of the CoC, as you guys call yourselves, and I noticed that he was still doing the gimmick. It struck me as really phony and odd. Because even the biggest trolls at this site like DGDB used to prove themselves to be regular guys, or so I perceived, as they chatted up their other members of the CoC, but this guy was still saying, "Fred is going to eat hot dogs for lunch." "Fred has to go to work." "Fred's favorite movie is Police Academy 6." It struck me as being painfully unfunny and odd. My opinion of trolls is that they fit into one of two extremes: They are either regular guys who have friends and family offline, and are somewhat intelligent and creative and just troll to pass time during the day and to let off steam for fun....OR...they are socially inept, and trolling (or playing out some gimmick) is one of their few social interactions during the day, and one of the few times they can speak to others with the appearance of confidence. Fred appeared to be in the latter group to me. But then again, I don't know him like you CoC members do...so feel free to embrace one another in your mutual circle jerk, as mentioned above.
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If you did take the opportunity to speak to Fred, you would realize that he is the furthest thing from a troll. He is very kind, never has a bad word to say about anyone, is far from socially inept, and is a helluva lot smarter than those who don't look beyond his preferred way of expressing himself on AIC would imagine. His "trolling" we call his "ninja moves" and were all in good fun to keep the Twitch talkbacks (or whatever other potentially worthy discussion was sagging) in the top ten. Fred is a true gem and I consider myself fortunate to be his friend.
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Rickey Henderson and Orcus have always spoken in third person, and are most certainly not trolls either.And City of God is fucking awesome. I would also consider The Visitor in my top twenty.
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I really appreciate that, especially coming from someone who I regard as one of the most intelligent cinephiles running around these parts. Yeah, the original TF TBs were epic- battling with Donny Two Chins, matching wits (or at least trying to) with the brilliant Childe Roland, etc. Nothing will match that insanity. But yes, put on a fresh pot, brother- I look forward to many more TBs with you.
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...but when I meet someone who speaks of them self in the 3rd person, my reaction is the same as it would be if I were to meet someone in person who spoke of them self in the 3rd person.
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Mavra, adding a much needed 'feminine' touch to this tb. You are the Wendy to us Lost Boys.
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I know the guy personally- he's a fucking mensch all the way. The third person gag is something he adopted in honor of the real Rickey Henderson. It's almost like he doesn't have a choice in the matter!
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If you ever go through old TBs, you'll see Orcus still posting- really funny shit like "I'm from the future, this movie ends up being terrible!" in a MATRIX REVOLUTIONS preview article. I mean, who makes a joke where nobody will be there to see it? Is a joke funny if it falls in the woods? I like Orcus' style.
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Not sure if that's true or not, but I believe many of Fred's favorite films are on Turner Classic Movies. It would be hard to imagine that his favorite wouldn't have a "Fred" in the starring role (they do tend to stick together). Dirk knows Fred better than anyone. He's the Amoeba to ask.
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I'll agree with that wholeheartedly. Never met Rickey Henderson
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Hell, even Kevin Willis was traveling for a bit back in time, posting his silly "last"s.
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OK, maybe not #1 on a list of this decade's best movies... but among midget vampire movies, it stands boldly & manfully atop the summit.For those unfamiliar: tinyurl.com/yknjk63This is certainly one of those "so bad it's good" movies. The acting is atrocious, the budget would've made Ed Wood envious, and the protagonist(Drexel)is a white-guy version of Blade with none of the moves and roughly 25% of the badassness.There's one slo-mo shot(that gets repeated twice)of Drexel, decked out in shades, duster, and cowboy boots as he does a backflip from the hood of his musclecar. As with the rest of the movie, God only knows why.Still, there's something almost pathetically endearing about it. Worth the price of a rental, if you can find it.
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Dec 03, 2009 7:19:29 AM CST
...this has been a good talkback. I was even reminded of...
by flickapoo
...a few movies I somehow missed that I still need to see.I won't mention which ones or you guys will tar me with the viscous sludge on a theater floor after the last show of NEW MOON, and feather me with shredded unsold tickets for THE ROAD. Some good stuff has slipped through the cracks...unacceptable.
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Remember that chair George Clooney built in Burn After Reading? It's like a rocking comfy chair, and whenever it rocks forward a dildo shoots up from the bottom. Well, ABKing built one of those - he calls it his "Stallone Chair" which he uses to watch any and every film starring Sylvester Stallone.
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I think that was his name. He relished in the fact that he had no life and would post "FIRST!" on every talkback, madly clicking and refreshing the front page, waiting for a new article to be posted. Only later, with the creation of YouTube, did many others appear on the net who would start doing the exact same thing, at which point First Man likely had a moment of reflection, and realized he was one of the most hated douchebags at this site....and he vanished.
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The Herald or Orcus brings Orcus news that Orcus was spoken of. Anything good? Did Orcus miss anything?
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I'm gonna give a shout out to 'Meh' Man. Like the grave of the unknown soldier, 'Meh' man stands as a symbol for every dude that has seen fit to post news of their disinterest. 'I have no interest in this' he takes the time to post in threads in which he clearly has no interest. 'Could care less' is another of his grammatically incorrect calling cards. And finally in this decade a whole new word has been invented for this individual's usage - 'meh'. So, here's to you 'meh' man, you pointless cunt.
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The biggest douchebag talkbacker ever. No one else can touch this guy.
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I'm gonna give a shout out to Orcus. A man / creature that inhabits the nether world of AICN. Motherfucker has some kind of sixth sense as demonstrated by the post above. What Orcus is no one truly knows. A terror from the old world or just a loner with a librarian complex? But behold. It is here.
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Or whatever one takes out. And yes, Orcus has his ways.....
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Did Orcus just type the "Herald or Orcus"? Orcus still can't type. Damn claws
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"Thanks to Dirk for all of the compliments."
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It's utter shit. I reviewed it for the Vault and it's one of the 3 least fun films I've ever seen: http://tinyurl.com/ydfku2b It would probably have been OK if they had some actual clue about making a film. And there's no nudity which is unforgivable in a film like that. Utter wank.
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Let me try that again. It's utter shit. I reviewed it for the Vault and it's one of the 3 least fun films I've ever seen:
http://tinyurl.com/ydfku2b It would probably have been OK if they had some actual clue about making a film. And there's no nudity which is unforgivable in a film like that.
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One of the 5 Most Beautiful Shot films of All Time. Tarsem took a kid's story and makes it something viewable for adults. A little abstract and not for everyone though.
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FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!
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"Who else is going to toss off a complicated joke fusing ID4 with the works of William Shakespeare?"
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...the article was about a movie adaptation of a series of books involving a Harry Potter type kid who finds out he's half Greek god or something..."Thus spake Zeus to Percy..."Percy... you and I have something in common. I knew your mother. And when I say I knew her... I KNEW her. Every tantalizing, goosebump inducing inch of the woman. You see, in my younger days, I visited your mother in the form of a bull. Yes, I was a fine specimen if I do say so, all rippling muscle and snorting fury. Naturally, she couldn't resist. I took her in the traditional manner, but there was nothing animalistic about it it. No, it was sweet sweet lovemaking. And never ONCE did she cry out "WHERE'S THE BEEF?" Oh, she knew, lad! SHE KNEW! Anyway, blah blah blah, miracle of life, nine months later and there you are. So... how's your mum?"
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It's #2 on my all-time Top 10. As was said here by someone I can't recall, it's incredibly honest about the human condition, and it's crafted with such artistry and all the performances are so good. It's a shame it just whipped over the head of just about everyone. "Dude, I didn't get the space aliens at the end." "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, yooooou."
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Dec 03, 2009 8:56:50 AM CST
Top 100 lists are the most worthless exercise on Earth...
by burnhollywood
...BTW, because only a fraction of the readers even give a shit about the top 25, only hanging around to assess the top 10.
This is reminding me of a tedious routine the otherwise excellent Brit magazines routinely engage in, where they boldly announce THE TOP 100 (250, 1000, etc) *GREATEST* (something) MOMENTS IN FILM HISTORY.
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I honestly never thought I'd be in the same list as Bruce Willis in my entire life. And there I am. Kick-ass! Anyway, Turd, you rock, and I'm sorry you dislike me. For the record, I'm not deranged, schizophrenic OR self-loathing. On the rest, you're pretty much all right. :) You're actually a pretty intelligent guy when you're not taking a giant shit on me.
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... I'm not non-white-hating either. I misread what you said there. :P~ Racism is about the dumbest thing in the world.
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Chakrab: You knoweth not about whom you speak ill of. As others have said, Fred is truly the nicest dude on these boards as well as one of the funniest and smartest. His 3rd person schtick, if you bothered to look beyond your prejudice, is I believe, an homage to Cerebus the Aardvark - who spoke in the 3rd person. Fred, myself, Jaka, Kevinwillis, Mostholy and a few others are diehard Cerebus fans - we get it. You do not. That so many of Fred's friends will defend him, should be reason enough for you to realize ya done fucked up. Fred would never 'fight' back. In fact his greatest moment may have been when Egg-salad in all his frothing baboon shit eating glory, tried to dump his load on a CoC TB, insulting everyone around, while Fred just sweetly and calmly posted back to him, even inviting him to join the group! I damn near had a stroke when I read that one! But you could almost see the steam rising from egg salad's chimp smacked forehead, as he was getting more and more pissed at not being able to goad Fred. Finally eggy huffed off and never tried to insult Fred again. It was amazing and the best way ever for dealing with a shit smearing troll - although I prefer smacking them around.
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Dirk - thanks for the shout out on the list. I will send you a fine looking dustball for Christmas!
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It's not that I'm racist for or against any one race. What it is - is that I've known prejudice based on my ethnic background when I don't even really LOOK Native American based on where I went to school. Since I was at a reservation school and hung out with other NA friends, I would get followed when I was with them in stores but left alone on my own because they looked more "ethnic" than me even though we have the same background. Likewise, I dated a black guy for two years and the way I got treated when I was with him was amazing - in stores, people would RUSH up get into our faces the minute we'd go into a store. "Can I help you?" "Can I help you?" like -a second- after we walked in, because they were suspicious we were thieves. I wouldn't get treated like that on my own.So, Turd, the thing is? I dislike seeing the "tables turn" and seeing anti-NA and anti-black racism simply replaced with anti-white racism. I don't think ANY racism is a good idea. A lot of people mistake this for me thinking white people are somehow inherently perfect. No, it's not that at all. I just don't like seeing any race maligned.
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I gotta say I disagree in one way. I dislike the 'BEST MOVIES EVER' lists because they're so pointless and nonsensical - and often -very- arbitrary. But the thing is ... the 'best (x) moments' are often very intersting because I've discovered MANY new fi;ms of a particular type from those lists. Scariest Moments lists are a boon to me as a horror fan because they briefly describe something (and I only like them in print because the movie isn't ruined that way, unless they're dips and give away big plot secrets). I find those helpful for me because I don't have any friends who are into horror to tell me to check out some obscure thing. It was thruugh such print lists I discovered SUSPIRIA, MAGIC, RINGU, JU-ON,THE FUNHOUSE, LIFEFORCE, THE BOOGENS and a host of others I now adore.
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Life in the other realms is just frakkin BUSY! One day Orcus built a server for the archives department (Called it Orcus since the place named their servers based on Greek and Roman Mythology. Oh the Irony). Then Orcus was given the duties or Webmaster for his department. Quite frankly Orcus is making shit up as he goes along on that one. Now Orcus has to get savvy on Windows 7 to teach a mini class for the newbs and test out software on it for a future migration. FEH!. So yeah, Orcus has been a wee bit scarce :)
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You could tell where Kubrick would have ended it and where Speilberg extended it
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Also scariest moments list is stupid to watch unless you know before hand you've seen all the movies on the list. Because if you see a list with a movie you'd like to see, it'll totally ruin it for you.
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You're kinda totally wrong. The whole thouasnds-of-years-later ending? That was something that was ESSENTIAL to Kubrick. He created that. The actual story ends with Professor Hobby and David together as a new family after the original family goes totally haywire. Kubrick wanted the 2001-ish extended ending! Not you too! :)
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...crash the CoC party on one thread, and saw some people having a conniption, and thought it was absolutely hilarious. I like egg salad. As someone mentioned above, some trolls are good at breaking up the monotony.
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That's why I said "read" instead of watch.
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Yes, personal opinions still count as both personal and opinion...my top ten:
1- Kill Bill
An amazing piece of geek cinema with bad ass fights, anime, blood, guts, music and characters. Perfect.
2- Pirates of the Carribean: DMC
The first Pirates movie made me feel like I did when I went to summer movies in the late '70s and 80's as a kid... this sequel was even better!
3- Cast Away
Guilty pleasure...love it!
4- Harry Potter and the Gobblet of Fire
There has to be discussion on how amazing the Harry Potter films have been this decade...this one is my favorite to date.
5- The Incredibles
The best Pixar film to date from the amazing Brad Bird!
6- Shrek
"Really, really..."
7- O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Coen Brothers at their best...unbelievable!
8- Apacalypto
Mel G. confirms himself has a great filmmaker.
9- No Country for Old Men
The Coen Brothers do it again!
10 -Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ethereal, Epic, Amazing!
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Glad to see some people can appreciate it too for the great movie it is. Every great movie combines esthetics to tell a good story and that movie does that marvelously.
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You hate Fred because he destroyed your troll idol. Eggy was never the same after his encounter with Fred. Who'da thunk that kindness would kill a troll?
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I do understand the busy. This is the first time in about a month that I have been able to post during daytime. Although to be honest, there was nothing for me to post about even at night, so although I perused I did not say anything. I will probably drop off again until I have actually seen Avatar - unless a Godzilla or James Bond thread come up.
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has anyone seen 'Le goût des autres'? Talky (but in a good way), funny, slightly chilled romantic? See it!
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....because I remember egg starting talking amongst you guys like a normal person...that was pretty funny, too. And I don't hate Fred, I'll take all of your guys' statements to vouch for him...and I forgot that he was the one that was nice to egg salad...so that's reason enough to like the guy.
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Man Arjaybee you sound like a 10 year old making a list. But you remember seeing movies in the 70s which makes you older then me. I don't mind the Harry Potter series, the first 3 were decent, but man 4 was AWFUL. And I was embarressed to be in a theater watching it, and I'm younger then you. That whole dance scene was so bad and lame. I kind of hate that one, the next two were just boring.
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Eggy was an asshole supreme. Not just for being a troll. I could live with that - plenty of them around and he never really bugged the CoC - he was just ignored. But say what you will about Harry, for some shit paper like eggy to constantly spam every Tb with graphic and truly disgusting descriptions about Harry's late mother and the way Eggy envisioned her dying, went so far beyond the acceptable, that I have no respect for anyone who thinks that Eggy deserves even a roach shit worth of consideration. But maybe you did not read what he said about Harry's mother, if so, I give you the benefit of the doubt.
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...I remember his crossing the line at times, like graphic descriptions regarding Estelle Getty's deceased body...but I had forgotten about what he said about Harry's mother. Yeah, that crossed the line. Still, I tend to agree with the philosophy you mentioned before about killing with kindness....even though I don't necessarily live by it.
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arjaybee, CAST AWAY a guilty pleasure??!
The only guilty pleasure in that was hobo-haired Hanks humping the shit out of Wilson every night. Guess he had to keep him pumped up somehow.
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Great freaking lists. I love seeing all the Children of Men love on here. That was my #1 movie of the decade.And between shogun and Miyamoto_Musashi it's wonderful to see the Asian film love. I thought I was the only guy willing to sneak one or two of those on a top ten of the decade list.arjaybee, having The Incredibles and Apocalypto on your list = extreme PROFESSIONAL.The Fall was epic movie making. I can understand how it wasn't for everyone but visually it has no equal.I'll also defend Fred as well. He's a stand up guy who had some very insightful opinions and was kind enough to share some of his writing projects with me and he's a helluva writer.
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Actually, Kubrick did intend the ending where David is found by future Mechas and thus finally achieving his special one-of-a-kind status. The ending we saw is the ending Kubrick wanted. Which is still kind of dark.
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HOD is here. Lotta legends in one place. This tb really has become the 'gathering'...
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Right?
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Only if we see a mail plane.
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Orcus stands corrected. Orcus is debating on releasing the info on the Herald. If the Herald wants to...
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This is where we rape the volleyballs and leave Tom Hanks a broken sobbing man.
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Mass is now in session.
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That's what his estate says in that Kubrick documentary that came out after his death and after A.I. was released, and that's the story I've heard from other interviews with his wife and producer Jan Harlan on the subject. Surprising, yes, since many thing Kubrick would have ended it with David trapped under the ferris wheel for all eternity, but that wasn't the right end for David's journey, Kubrick thought. He needed to be special and unique in the future, the future mechas' link to the past, the only link to the ones that made them.
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MONGOL, which was shot in Kazakhstan, is an overlooked gem. Sure, it sugar-coated a lot of Genghis Khan's personality (overlooking less-savory aspects of the man) but the story is still compelling. And those David Lean-esque shots of the countryside are amazing. AND it only cost $20 million. I recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it.
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This place is getting serious.
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Church of Chang = holy ground Highlander
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Sometimes, I wanna kick my own ass down the street...
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Dec 03, 2009 10:21:52 AM CST
I dont post much so blend into the background like a Predator
by col. tigh-fighter
Then BAM, headshots all round. And glad to see some City of God love around here. Man, that films brutal in places. And no Harry Potter film is ever allowed to be in a top 10 lists. Jebus!
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I really enjoyed Cast Away too. Don't know why that movie takes so much sh. I mean, it was just about a guy stuck on an island dealing with despair and loneliness. It was a solid movie.
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Isn't there supposed to be a follow-up or no?I also enjoyed the hell outta The Warlords. Jet Li is great in that.
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"Then BAM, headshots all round."
Col. Tigh i'm picturing lockes, TITBAG and Nerd_Rage sitting in a sweaty jungle shack. The door's kicked in and before they can even go for their guns, you give em each one between the eyes with a silenced Mp4. Blood splats run down the bamboo. You spit on the floor. Job done. -
Agreed. That's the only reason and way to make list of top films.That said, RAISING VICTOR VARGAS, LATE MARRIAGE and NOWHERE TO HIDE ("You're a Holidaaay") are favs.
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Haven't actually read the Beaks list yet, so I'll get to it. Just wanted to check in because a little bird told me all the great legendary TBers of old were here!
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The only sound to be heard is the mini-gun spinning, empty.
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Hope you don't mind, but I'm getting you some freshly sharpened #2 pencils for Christmas. Tis the holidays...for smiting shitheels.
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What a great movie. Gorgeous to look at.I had no idea so many people here were into Asian cinema. I'm going to cry.
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Dec 03, 2009 10:35:43 AM CST
The Fall is an ode to imagination, storytelling, and film
by soylentmean
Three things I hold dear to my heart. The visuals, the acting, and the cinematography combined to create a film I can't stop thinking about. It was my favorite film of last year and will most likely sit in the top ten of my best 100 of the decade.
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Great acting job from Hanks, as he was there front and centre for the whole fucking thing. Some cool ideas played out well. Not my personal favourite, but allowed a big bag of kudos for the large hairy ones they showed having a go at it.
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Absolutely, there's a few amateurs around the office who need some trepanation! Nothing new these days, just work and work and the occasional movie review. Just watched the original Tremors again, this time with the daughter. It was a family moment to cherish.
Which reminds me, what with the holidays, time to order another gross of "Tremor Attack Packs" to use as gifts. Nothing says "I love you" like a four-pack of Burt Gummer. I wonder how Michael Gross feels about Meredith Baxter's official outing. I'm not surprised, but it's a little off-putting; I'm positive I jerked it to her at least a dozen times back in the "Family Ties" days. -
I'm getting Zatoichi versus the One-Armed Swordsman today from Netflix. Why? Because Zatoichi kicks ass. Also, when I went and saw Grindhouse I was the only one of my friends who laughed at the Zatoichi line from Jungle Julia. And then I had to explain why it was funny.
The explanation was:
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"If ur troll bleeds ve kun kill it."
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So is Ip Man. Not sure what the status of the sequels are though.
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The "I have made... FIRE!" scene was beat to hell in the commercials, etc. and it kind of angered me to a point where I wanted to dislike the movie. I did appreciate it when I eventually watched it on cable, but I think I'd like it more now that I've calmed the fuck down. And the most interesting part of the story is really him coming home and trying to absorb everything. I could have watched a whole movie about that alone.
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According to Wikipedia (I know, I know) the sequel is going to happen. To be safe, I demand all of you buy the DVD today.
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Is this where we die???
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...of Beaks' first 25. I don't have any major comments to add since I haven't seen most of the films...
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CAST AWAY sponsored by Fed Ex and Wilson Sporting Goods; 'When your balls are on the line it has to be there on time'.
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the planets must be aligning. Guess it's time to ask myself what I believe...
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Orcus is waiting for the Cylons to attack with everyone here
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That party they throw him and he flicks the lighter on and off. Having all these luxuries at our fingertips, we take so much for granted. Ironically my water heater died yesterday so I was without water last night and I gotta tell you, you don't appreciate water coming out of your faucets until it doesn't.
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For a while I thought they were rip-offs of Vader, and then Fett, but they rule. I will be eating Daggitt fajitas for dinner, 2012 comes two years early.
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MS Office 2012 destroys your machine
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Don't know if you recall the great electrical brownout in August of 2003, which knocked out the entire eastern seaboard of the US, but that long weekend made me appreciate indoor plumbing and electricity.
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Tis indeed the second coming of the glorious Church of Chang. Someone grab Jarv!
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last night, were you forced to drink your own urine and cannibalize anyone until the water came back on? That'd be schweet
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I look forward to seeing more.
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When I scrolled through the TB I saw Jarv's name up there, but I dunno if he's checked in today. I didn't visit this particular TB until this morning. He might be out ruining shitheels using "appropriate ammunition"
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There's a difference between product placement in something like I, Robot and in a movie like Cast Away. I mean, his character worked for a shipping company so unless they pulled a Simpsons and turned a real company into a fake one (Sony = Sorny), they needed to have the real deal there. Packages are never nondescript so the product placement was unavoidable.
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That the first part of Beaks' list omits "Stomp the Yard."
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I live for smiting shitheels with my trusty mrv'ed #2 leaden death from the sky! Attack!
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Those miserable poutine munching twats.Last night I was forced to drink wine and leave all my dirty dishes in the sink. So a regular Wednesday night.
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Matisyahu concert. Tonight, christian heavy metal with Underoath.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:07:38 AM CST
Abom, is Christian heavy metal as truly bad as it seem?
by col. tigh-fighter
Damn those fucking do-gooders who get all prissy about being sober and being virgins. Saw a news piece on them. The fucking hypocryte was drinking fucking Red Ball while pontificating about having a clear head and not being sily. I wanted to punch him and tell him Ive been both sober and a virgin, and the alternative was better.
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Top 100 people.
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HOD, the only thing CAST AWAY didn't have was Hanks reverentially murmuring "god bless Gilette" as it came time to shave his hobo beard off.
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You've already lost my interest. This list is BS. Top 100? Please. It's just a list of films, great ones already put behind complete rubbish. Pathetic.
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Apparently the legendary 'god bless Gilette' scene was shot but the sponsor dropped out so it got cut.
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Col. Tigh I'm honestly not that familiar with current heavy metal bands to know how do-goodish christian bands are, or how they stand against non-christian bands or bands who don't make an issue of religion in the songs, unless they're discussing our Dark Prince from the Fiery Realm Below
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Jesus, that was awful.
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With the: 4 YEARS LATER! Really? Can't even get a montage or something together?
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I never really followed the guy or his career, so I'm not sure if his current situation makes his image improve in my eyes, or stay the same. I mean, he's a gazillionaire. It shouldn't be a surprise that he was fooling around. It's news only because he got caught. Mrs. Woods has one of two options 1) be quiet and continue enjoying life as Mrs. Gazillionaire, or 2) divorce Tiger and take half his gazilliones with you, because at the end of the day, he'll do what he wants.
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With: 'Face-Guard and 9 iron protection built in!' So that 'a man can sleep safe and sound!' Tiger Guard helmets - if you are fucking around, buy one today!
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Inspired by you guys I started writing a list and thought of a film I loved in the early 2000s - Narc. That was a rough little cop movie with Liotta at his malovent best. Worth inclusion in a top 100.
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Lets you sleep safe and sound when you are fucking around!
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Yeah reg'lar Reunion here today. If Chitty shows up, I may drop dead from excitment.
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Abom, his wife is really hot, I'd be hoping that she'd take option 3 - swing a little and join the party.
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You guys don't think Castaway was Hanks' tour de force? I don't understand the lot of you. It's like his best role ever, next to Gump.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:20:35 AM CST
Narc was a great film. Shame director went onto to do
by col. tigh-fighter
tat souless piece of crap Smoking Aces. God, I hate that film. It could have been somebody, could have been a contender, but no..... style over substance, and not much style at that. Frankly John Woo and Stephen Chow do comedy deaths better than that. Damn, I should probably have put Kung Fu Hussle in my top 10. That film doesnt have a single bad bit in it.
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Have you seen Hurt Locker yet?
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Golf great Tiger Woods announced this morning that he will be shooting a series of television commercials promoting Everlast's new line of sparring headgear. A spokesman for the boxing-equipment manufacter was quoted as saying, "This is fuckin' awesome! Thanks, Mrs. Woods! Sorry you didn't like how your husband's fingers smelled."
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turns an above average film into a GREAT film.
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Heee
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In fact, I have not seen anything new since this summer. I am seriously slacking in the movie watching. I have been catching up on my reading though.
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right you are--I hadn't considered that! Swing away Mrs. Woods
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Damn, where u been? Did you catch the new housewife on OC? The Christian fundie who's a virtual slave to her husband?
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SDB, you gotta lotta supporters of the Hanks / Wilson rom com here!
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Because you'll like it. Ya, it rules.
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The two major wireless providers known for asking if you can "hear me now" announced this morning that they'll launch a new ad campaign this winter featuring former golf ace Tiger Woods. The tag line for the new ads will include such slogans as, "I need you to do me a HUGE favor, take your name off the phone" and "My wife just went through my phone" and "Just leave your number from now on; this is HUGE, thanks."
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Golf pro Tiger Woods announced today that he has founded a Rememial Driver's Education Class with music legend Stevie Wonder. Woods himself will act as instructor for the classes on "Crashing as a Diversionary Tactic" and "Dealing With It Privately"
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Dec 03, 2009 11:31:05 AM CST
So "4 years later" bothered you in Cast Away, Series
by hawaiian organ donor
But not in that steaming pile Star Trek? I mean, hell in Cast Away it made sense. Who needs to see him learning how to fish or making the suicide machine. But those cunts Orci and Kurtzman couldn't give us 5 minutes of Kirk's academy days?! Fuuuuuuuuuuck.
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Calm down. Cast Away was aiming for realizm. Star Trek wasn't. It was just so SUDDEN, like they ran out of shit for him to do on the island.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:33:53 AM CST
What does Tiger have in common with a baby seal?
by hawaiian organ donor
They've both been clubbed by a Norwegian.I hate Tiger for other reasons but after my recent summer of extreme indiscretions, I can't hold cheating against him. In fact, it's the only good thing that schmuck has ever done.
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I just presumed he spent four years fucking the shit out of Wilson. It wasn't air keeping that ball inflated. It was Hanks spunk.
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Cast Away as much as Star Trek. I haven't seen Cast Away in so many years and I saw Star Trek like a couple months ago, and I can't remember shit about it. But I could probably write the script to Cast Away.
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I put in Star Trek again last night to see if I had misjudged it and I am happy to report, I did not. It's still the most nonsensical twaddle of the year.
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I'm actually a bit behind the curve on this story, so Tiger got beaten by his missus for playing around and then faked the car crash to explain the cuts? Is that about the long and short of it?
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Dec 03, 2009 11:41:32 AM CST
I THINK TIGER CRASHED THE CAR BECAUSE HIS WIFE WAS YELLING AT HI
by bringingsexyback
Happens like 1,000 times a day across America.
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The Kobayashi Maru test for me satisfied the "five minutes" of Kirk's training...but I found it oddly serendipitous that it was SPOCK who designed the test. Kinda like when George Lucas did TPM and had Anakin build C3PO. It just seemed like a forced way to piece some things together.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:46:14 AM CST
THERE'S A TON OF LAZY WRITING IN NEW TREK, THAT IS TRUE
by bringingsexyback
But it's excusable if only because the franchise was kinda dead anyway, with little hope of revival. Now that it's been successfully rebooted, Orci needs to step up his game. No excuses.
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Fuck that noise. To say that then your putting T4 in the same category. They were the same fucking movies. Just Star Trek wasn't a downer so people liked it.
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The Kobayashi Maru test would have worked better with just 60 seconds of backstory. Just show him scheming with a programmer or technician before the test. Have them at a bar, and Kirk is promising this uber nerd some green tail if he helps him out. It would've been funny and actually enhanced the scene.But enough, this TB ain't about Star Trek, it's about brotherhood.
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The Tiger story is still unclear. I'm not sure of the details. Some accounts have him getting in a crash, then his wife helping him out. Others suggest his wife caused the crash by yelling at him in the car, others postulate that his wife scratched him during an argument at home, and he staged the accident to cover his injuries. Either way, it doesn't make much sense for a stone-cold sober person to get into a serious accident near one's own home with no other cars involved.
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Really. When you think about it, do you really give a shit what happens to that cocksucker? WOW your the highest paid athlete in the world (or one of them?) because you play golf? I look at him the same way I look at Wal Mart.
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Makes me feel good. That's just how I'm wired.
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Do you guys like Huey Lewis?
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Series, yeah fix him with your Wal Mart stare. That'll put the wind up him.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:58:47 AM CST
NOW IF ONLY VIJAY SINGH WOULD GET CAUGHT UP IN A SCANDAL
by bringingsexyback
My life would be complete.
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Check out Deadspin.com for some hilarious and I think spot on speculation about what went down at the Tiger cave. Specifically, there is and I shit you not, a Chinese made CGI recreation that just nails what they think happened.
Tiger and Elin get into a fight, she either slaps and or scratches his face. Tiger leaves house, with Elin pursuing with a golf club. He gets into his car in a hurry, while looking over his shoulder out back window, he floors the accelerator, loses control, and hits fire hydrant then bounces into tree. -
I know what you mean. I live in Cleveland, but since I'm not into sports Lebron James is just another high-paid celebrity athlete. I don't doubt that he and Tiger, etc. are great at their respective games; it's just that I don't put much personal stock in what they do. And, like BSB, there's a small part of me that enjoys seeing fabulously wealthy or famous people have their lives messed up a bit. Not that I feel they have it coming, but it's nice.
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There's always some drama at Wal-Mart. Makes for fun reading.
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Let the lovefest begin...
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The writing of NU TREK re-defined the concept of lazy writing. Truly it's the work of the people who wrote Transformers 1 and 2. And that "Star Trek was dead" is a falalcy. Star Trek DVDs always sold like french fries everytime there was a new re-edition. Yes, the TV shows stoped being produce,d but at the very elast TOS never went out of fashion, and it never stoped being Paramount's biggest long running cash-cow. Why do you evne think they decided to reboot TOS instead of making a St movie about DS9, Voyager or Enterprise? All this "Star Trek was dead" is just publicity stunt bullshit to support Abrasm's "reinvention" of the franchise as a Star Wars movie.
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I thought it was rather jarring in Trek. Maybe its bc the way they did the titles for the "Three Years Later" just looked awful and had bad pacing. Fade into space, stars twinkling. Pause for a moment. Then bring up "THREE YEARS LATER" with all the weight you would the main title of the film.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:02:41 PM CST
IF MY HUSBAND WERE A BILLIONAIRE HE COULD FUCK WHOMEVER
by bringingsexyback
Just make sure I have a thick wad of cash everyday and I'm happy.
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someone go ask Coughlins.
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if Reign of Fire doesnt make it into Beaks top 25 he's just waisting his time
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i still love ya...
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yeah its not bad...over the holidays..they replayed all of NJ...PROSTITUTION WHORE!!!!**flip**love it.
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I wish when I crash and burned it meant banging tons of hot chicks. Its really sad to see. Fuck that unless one of them turns out to be a man, Tiger comes out on top.
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I wasn't crazy about T4 either. Talk about some boring, muddled nonsense.Look, I'm the first guy to admit I have the worst taste in movies. I put stuff in my top ten of the decade over at AIBN that had people scratching their head. And while a movie like Shoot Em Up is far more nonsensical than Star Trek, I don't think it had the level of lazy writing. I respect BSB for at least admitting that in spite of liking the film.I think it's possible to have a movie that's completely stupid fluff but still maintains some original ideas/writing. I just find it funny that people trash Transformers 2 but praise Star Trek. They were both written by Orci and Kurtzman and both were symposiums on lazy writing. But I'm guessing Trek gets the pass because the cast was so goddamn good.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:05:13 PM CST
YEAH, ASI, BUT ONE CAN ONLY WATCH WRATH OF KHAN SO MANY TIMES
by bringingsexyback
I was craving a new, genuine Trek movie and without the spin-off vibe. Sorry, but Abrams delivered. He made some nice lemonade out of Orci/Kurtzman's lemons. Bay wasn't able to pull it off with TF2.
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99 MOVIES THAT ARE SO MUCH LESS AWESOME THEN JAR JAR ABRAMS' STINO, made by the most devoted syncophantic ass kissing serf employee of Jar Jar Abrams (formaly Michael Bay's) operating at AICN (AKA, Jar Jar Abrams's own fiefdom).
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http://tinyurl.com/ylbeurk
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I think they did. Hi Asimov! Glad to see you are still goat happy.
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BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!! Whoo-baby!!!
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im hooked...
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Dec 03, 2009 12:08:00 PM CST
THERE WERE, LIKE, 2 OR 3 LENS FLARES I COULD'VE DONE WITHOUT
by bringingsexyback
But otherwise a good job on the lighting.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:08:16 PM CST
The difference between Cast Away and Star Treks 'years later'
by series7
I totally forgot about Star Trek doing that. But do we need to see a movie about Kirk going to class, learning how to salute, learning space math, learning commanding officer ranks, learning how to fire a phaser? No. But in Cast Away, the whole point of that movie up until that point was how he was getting by DAY-TO-DAY minute to minute, getting food. Then all of the sudden they were like...ok enough of that jump to the end. Seriously it was four years, all by himself doing what? At least with Star Trek you can guess the stupid shit they learned.
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This TB is replete with bromance
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Goatfucker, are you trained in emergency response or something? 44 seconds afters Asi's post and you're there! Fuck man, how'd you do that???
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in Woods' gated community. Seriously.
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I'm sorry. That was piss poor all around. That was some lazy ass writing/acting/directing/action/comedy. That movie put me to sleep in theaters. Probably one of the 10 worst of the decade. Not surprised though, Boring Owen sounds like he's about to fall asleep everytime he talks on screen anyway.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:11:45 PM CST
CASTAWAY WAS LONG ENOUGH WITHOUT THE 4 YEARS LATER SEGUE
by bringingsexyback
Some might even say that showing more transitional scenes would've dragged the movie. I'm one of those who would say that.
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TKD, i watched that re-enactment vid. Made me think of that cool Simpsons episode that riffs on T2 with Homer chasing Flanders car with a pair of golf clubs. He he.
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What was the impetus for him finally building the raft and leaving the island? I forget why he didn't leave sooner. If I got lost on an island and Helen Hunt were my wife and she got married, even after 4 years, I might go Chris Brown on her.
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I think it was something that happened during that 4 Years Later scene of the movie. You know that time we got no idea of what happened.
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I loved it. It supposed to be a parody of the genre.
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Abom and Hod, I can't remember if it was one of you two guys that recommended THE INTERNATIONAL with Clive Owen to me. But i saw it this week and you were right - the shootout in the Guggenheim is superb.
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thanks to Red Matter, Trek did a lot of time-skipping. We see Kirk as a baby, then cut to him as a 12 year old joyriding in a car, and the next thing you know he's early twenties in a bar. He half-heartedly joins starfleet, whereupon Pike tells him he could captain his own ship in eight years. He flatly declares he'll do it in three.
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It's a matter of degree of failure. I admit that Transformers 2 is a worst movie then STINO. The movie reaches levels of awfulness that only Bay could deliver. He's unhuman, that Bay. In this regard, Jar Jar Abrams is a better man. But that is to say that 10 tonnes of shit is worst then one tonne of shit. Yes it is, but the other one is still ONE TONNE OF SHIT, as in, it's still a hell of a lot of shit. Not good.Did Jar Jar Abrams delivered? Yes he did. He made the unthinkable. He made a dumb Star Trek movie that is about nothing. The biggest dramatic black hole of the entire history of the franchise. Even Abrams mocks it when he says, in the audio comentary, that the major theme of the movie is Kirk hanging from big heights. That's the movie's director's own words! Never in the history of Star Trek that ever happened. It's a first. Abrams is a fucking pioneer. The pioneer of idioticy in a franchise once considered the thinking man's SF. There's something to be almost admired in that, indeed. Jar Jar Abrams went where no man had gone before: he went full retard.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:15:55 PM CST
As Jabba the Hut would say, you guys are my kind of scum
by hawaiian organ donor
I love watching famous wealthy douchebags collapse, too. Especially ones at the pinnacle of douchebaggery like Tiger Woods.I don't think there were any Wal Mart deaths this year. Pity.Oh yeah, I like watching the stupid and ignorant suffer, too.
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Wasn't me--I haven't seen that one.
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how Tom Hanks gets the raft and leaves the island after four years...
Red Matter.
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I would always think AsimovLives is the owner of this http://www.starbasedental.com/
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Dec 03, 2009 12:18:27 PM CST
I EXPECT MY WIFE TO GO FULL LEZBO IF I GOT SHIPWRECKED
by bringingsexyback
That would definitely motivate me to build a raft.
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"CAST AWAY last great zemeckis flick"Indeed. And then he decided to became a fucking cartoon filmmaker specialized in dead eyed creepy zombies. And fucking up english literature, twice now, with Beowulf and Charles Dickens.
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I don't get why people are upset we didnt get scenes of the four years of Tom Hanks shitting watery feces and wipping his ass with palm leaves. Oh yeah and the scene where he develops hemroids and disovers that no one Fedex's preperation H from russia.
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Fucking asses!!
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What no love for The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg?
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and wear one of those golf-clubs-through-the-head props. Just to fuck up his game. Wanker.
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Like, since Summer. No need to repeat it.
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I understand exactly what you mean. You would be marooned in a desert island for 3 years, and after your rescue, your wife would say: "i have a confession to make, i though you were dead so i was unfaithful to you" and you would go "who the fuck was the guy? Jim, your collegue at work?" and she would go "no, it was Jane, the hot babe neighbour next door" and you would go "YES!!!! YES!!!! Did you filmed it??"
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YEA EAT IT SUCKERS
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Dec 03, 2009 12:24:48 PM CST
I COULD WATCH LESBIAN HOMEWORK SESSION EVERYDAY FOR 4 YEARS
by bringingsexyback
After that, it's raft-building time.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:25:07 PM CST
As much as I hated Star Trek, I can't fault Abrams
by hawaiian organ donor
That opening scene was absolute aces and the direction was quite good. He was just stuck with a flaccid script. But I personally like Abrams. MI:3 was great.With regards to Cast Away, he wasn't able to escape the island due to the tide. They showed him trying but failing. It wasn't until the sheet of plastic washed ashore that he was able to make a sail and beat nature.Cobra, thanks for watching The International. Awesome movie. And yes, that shootout is just about the best directed set piece this or any other decade. The staging that must have gone into that is impressive. Most Impressive.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:25:25 PM CST
I WONDER IF HANKS' SPUNK TASTED LIKE COCONUT AFTER 4 YEARS
by bringingsexyback
I imagine it would.
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Yeah, but did AICN made their point already? Becasue i think they haven't on account of how they keep on harping on how awesome Jar Jar Abrams and STINO is TWICE A WEEK.... at the very least!
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I agree. I would hope that my wife would honor my memory by remaining "faithful" to me with her friend, Jennifer, in our bed.
I'd get home finally and say "I'm tired of eating fish."
And she'd say, "I'm not," while embracing Jen.
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I've been meaning to watch it, huge Tom Twyker fan (STAY OUT OF AMERICA THOUGH YOU FUCK!). But ugh Clive Owen is like action kryptonite. But I mean if Tom can stage a orgy on such a grand scale, a gun fight shouldn't be that hard.
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I'll have to look up "homework session."
I swore by "Lesbian Masseusse Training" for like, five years -
or raw fish.
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The best part about it is on the DVD where Billy Bob Thornton does Karl from Sling Blade in a scene.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:30:21 PM CST
OF ALL PEOPLE, IT WAS JENNIFER THAT BROUGHT SALVATION
by bringingsexyback
Praise be.
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The man handled hismefl quite well in SHOOT 'EM UP, and also he also played the very first pacifist action hero in the history of cinema in CHILDREN OF MEN, and didn't looked like a wuss doing it.
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PLEASE
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Dec 03, 2009 12:32:04 PM CST
ABOM - THE TENSION AND INITIAL RESISTANCE TO SEXUAL OVERTURES
by bringingsexyback
in Homework Session is EPIC.
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It's fucking vox populi!
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Horrible dumb piece of shit movie made by complete retards.
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Well yeah he kind of did, he more looked like he was about to get in bed the whole time. Like every scene of those movies, someone had just waken him up and he hasn't had his baked beans on toast yet. Only good Clive is The Driver series of BMW commericals.
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That porta-john part washed up and he realized he could use it as a sail.
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Fuck dead languages.
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Dec 03, 2009 12:35:30 PM CST
As HOD said "I like watching the stupid and ignorant suffer, too
by dvader
We're all fans of schadenfreude!
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who spouts the same shit over and over.Cast Away was okay, nothing great. And I've been meaning to watch the International. Really gotta hit the $1 Blockbuster rental box...
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Right you are!
Series--I took Latin in high school and college (where I also took Spanish). It helps in dissecting the English language, the roots of words, etc. But no, nobody really uses it -
The opening scene of STINO was aces? You mean, that melodramatic crap where the filmmakers are so poor at writing drama that they have to resort to cheap melodramtic tricks like having the soon-to-be-dead-meat daddy also have his son and wifey in the same ship as he is in his last moments alive and listenns to his baby's first cry, in a complete crass atempt as basic audience manipulation?You know, you are right, the movie goes downhill after that.
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Thanks for the props :)Glad to hear you're a fan of asian cinema. It's too bad more people really don't give them more chances. Lately China and Korea especially have been regularly turning out fantastic work!
SoylentMean: Dude, Zatoichi rules! Thankfully at 26+ films theres no shortage of greatness. It's like a japanese Bond, haha.
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Like, all the time. Sometimes its annoying when we can't understand her gibberish. But it does help when we, as a family, wonder together at the origin of a vocabulary word.
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Except the John Woo directed episode, which sucked!
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2-1 so far.
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Dead languages didn't hurt Mel Gibson's THE PASSION OF THE SKINNED RABIT, did it?
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I coulda sworn it was on its way. But I guess it never did =(. Haven't seen it yet, HOD, though a film friend of mine and I have made plans to catch it at some point. After we watch Night of the Creeps. And after we watch LOST seasons 1-5 before the S6 premiere in february.
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That's the point of his character in Children of Men. So many people are living a waking dream, meandering through the malaise of their daily lives, a permanent haze surrounding them. And as his journey with preggers wears on, we see the life seep back into his eyes. It's f'n brilliant, man!
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Sucker for soap-opera?
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Sorry Asi - but it moved me.
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Actually, latin is the official language of the vatican. So, yeah, actually many people today use is regulary and are quite proficient at it. Daily!
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There's danger, destruction, action, human drama, and emotion. And its done rather well.
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You'r older then me. They did that shit in my fathers generation.
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Thats a becon of accepting new ideas and staying current with the times.
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You are too easily emotionally manipulated, friend. You should worry about that.
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I swear you won't be satisfied until JJ Abrams' head is literally on a silver platter and stuffed by taxidermy. Then mounted on your wall.
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Yeah, I know the Pope and his street gang use it. I meant in general, whereas the Vatican is sort of insular. Granted, you do get the occasional parishes offering the occasional retro-Mass in all-Latin. But here in northeast Ohio, like half our churchs have closed. I say "our" when I should say "their."
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Yeah I just threw Children of Men in there, he was fine in that. But everything else, jeez its like watching someone on Ambian.
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Crisco Nabisco San Francisco.
Omnibus Pluribus I Ride the Bus, You Ride the Bus -
Compared to the evangelical christian movement, yes it is. Did you know that the vatican no longer considers the existence of hell a reality? That they do not uphold the concept of the infability of the bible? Just to name a few! Tell me of which protestant movement is that advanced.
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Set in those times. This is the internet set in 2009.
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I'm not going to jump on your ass like everyone else around here, but I'm just about the only guy in your corner when it comes to the new Trek hate, so don't be hatin' because I give the opening a pass. Yes it was melodramatic and a tad heavy on the cheddar and provolone, but it was very well shot.
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The idea of a captain going down with his ship, while talking to the woman he loves, *IS* an emotional situation, regardless of how its handled. Reacting to that does not make one easily manipulated.
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Did you know I could give fuck all about anything any religion does? Not my fault they follow any rules set in any other book thats not this: http://tinyurl.com/ye9emn9
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Sure it was kinda dumbed down but I admit I'm not the biggest Trek fan to begin with. I was a Star Wars nerd and still am (even tho they hate me... it's complicated)
Anyone who says it's a mockery of the franchise needs to go watch some of the TNG movies again. Dune buggies with backwards mounted machine guns and Kirk going out like a bloated n00b.
Trek 09 has charm. It has a great cast who looks like they're having the time of their lives. Unlike Trannyfuckers 2, which has a cast of fuckfaces who look like they just want to get the scene done so they can go back to their trailers to do another line. I think the plot holes are more to do with people own assumptions of how things in this new continuity should/would work. (ex. Earth's defenses at the end of the film)
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Isn't it "et pluribus uno" (= one (unique)among the many)?
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So is Gommorrah. I got them both sitting at home, being neglected by me why I watch such amazing things like Black Dynamite instead. And to a lesser extend, The Merry Gentlemen.
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fuck.
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Holy shxt!
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Might i remind you that STINO is a TOS reboot movie. So why people keep on comparing it to TNG? When Abrams decides to make a TNG reboot movie, then go after TNG with complete gay abandon, because then you will be justified.
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Its great coffee table material.
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"You just said 'always faithful terrible lizard'." "I did? Cool!"
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Any, and I mean any organization which discourages birth control in AIDS ravaged nations/continents deserves to dropped into a rusty wood chipper an inch an hour.And I'm not crapping on religion or even the Catholic church here. Just those cock gobblers at St. Peters. Catholics in general are 100% fine by me. And that goes out to DVader and Toadkillerdog especially who are aces in my book.
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Have you seen Black Dynamite? That movie is fucking awesome.
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Geez, the marines' oath and motto sounds like a mariage vow. "You are married now, son... to the corps!"
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Let me guess, you read Vern's review?
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I loved it! But did I see the whole thing? I thought I heard it was in two parts. What I saw certainly had a definitive ending though.
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I really want to.
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Fucking great movie.See what you've created Hawaiian! :-)Fucking love the catching arrows scene.
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I've actually not read any reviews on it. I think I saw the At The Movie guys talk about it, maybe some stuff and interviews over at the great AIBN. But no I never read Vern's review, and if I did I don't remember? Why can't a guy just like a movie? Have you not scene it yet?
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You and I have never had a beef. I suggest you truly shut the fuck up about Semper Fi. Yes, you are talking to a former Marine.
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by "great coffee table material," you mean the female, right?
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I loved it. It was not in two parts though, so I am wondering if something was cut?
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In AIDS ravaged places like Africa? Are you sure about that? I could have sworn the church finally relented on that subject... But hey, glad TKD and I are still okay by you.
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I wasn't comparing it to TNG, I was just commenting on the quality comparison.
TOS films had some goofy stuff in them, but the TNG movies had stupid shit in spades. Most of them were just TNG extended episodes with new uniforms and even shittier vehicles.
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Dec 03, 2009 1:06:56 PM CST
Let's get off the Trek talk, sorry I brought it up
by hawaiian organ donor
Shogun, if you want to see an Asian movie that will turn you inside out, go download (yes, it'll never be available over here) City of Life and Death. It makes Schindler's List look like Mary Poppins, but it is just an amazing film to watch.And I really need to watch Thirst. I feel dirty for having not seen it yet.
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Maybe the people who made STINO were having too much of a good time. Nobody is taking any of that seriously, and it shows. I think it was Terry Gilliam who said that good movies are only made with the tears and blood of the people who made it. It doesn't matter is a movie is "just entertaiment", it's still need comitement and belief in what you are doing to reach good results. The dark Knight is a movie about a guy who dresses as a bat to figth crime, and Raiders Of The Lost Ark is about an impossible archeologist who goes after the most important mythical object of human culture, and yet, nobody slowched on the job in those, and the results speak for themselves. And i don't give a fuck if the people who made the mvoie enjoyed themselves. When i go to the movies, i pay for my enjoyment, not to see others fooling around.
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in all it's uncut glory. Is it actually playing on HDNET?!
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here's a shitty movie that's the result of us fooling around. Enjoy!"
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Tread carefully.
That aint no Starter Trek can you are about to open. -
From the director of OLDBOY... say no more! I'm there!
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Well its a little bit of both. See you have the book out on your coffee table for friends and family to read when they come to visit. THEN when your banging her on the coffee table, if there for easy reach in case you need some instructions.
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Yes, it was on last month. I am not sure if it will be back in rotation soon, but I am loving HDNET
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Now that is a movie i would kill to watch.
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Death to Videodrome! Long live The New flesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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But you saw the North American version. Would've clocked in around 2:40 right? The proper Asian version is 4 hours.Pillow, that scene is top notch, but flaming boat kicks for the win.
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Why is it such a crime for a Trek film to have a good time? Isn't that the point? I feel like the characters in Trek09 fully believe in their world and sell it 100%
What would you change about it? Why does a Trek film have to be so grim in the first place? Wasn't seeing a planet get imploded grim enough? Wasn't seeing a man sacrifice himself in a blaze of glory to save his shipmates and wife/unborn son enough? Wasn't watching Pike get tortured enough? Wasn't watching Spock's mother plummet before his eyes enough? Didn't we see a Red Shirted goon get fried? Shit man, sometimes I like to see a movie without feeling like the whole world is gloom and doom.
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Spock: "Jim, why are you eating the octopus? It's illogical!" Kirk: "Spock, you wouldn't understand, you're not human" Bones:"Jim, the octopus, it's dead"Kirk: "Gulp... yeah, i know ... burp".
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You are welcome.
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Thanks for the info. I'm going to try to import a copy I guess :)
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You were #21!
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It is possibly the dullest vampire movie ever made. Put me to sleep.
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Well, that's the very thing, STINO is not a good time, it's dumb time. It's a soul sucking from extreme retardness into more extreme retardness that overlast for more then 2 hours. Thats the point. It's not enjoyable. Retarded idioticy like that is not enjoyable. It's shit, and being fed shit is hardly my concept of having fun. Got it? Coprophagia was never my game.
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Yup, (SPOILERS for those who have not witnessed Red Cliff) the way that whole scene plays out...from the change of the wind to their allies showing up ready to charge. I just love the whole sipping tea while a 100,000 arrows rain down on the boats, which shortly thereafter leads to two beheadings and a poisoning.
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Nice try at humor. Just stick with screaming gay references.
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This isn't really the place for this, but I feel I need to vent. This guy is such a shit head. Anyone follow him on Twitter? There is not ONE tweet that is not one of these 2 things:
a. Bragging about something awesome that he had happen to him because of his status.
b. Bitching about something in a really dickheaded manner.
Either way, no matter what he posts, he sounds like a huge dick all the time. What a worthless and joyless human being. -
Good to know you have the love for Videodrome.
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Im looking forward to RED CLIFF. What bothered me most about Beaks boring-ass list of the decades best was the lack of 'cool' genre flicks in it. Isn't this site meant to be a champion of those sort of flicks??
Not one cool genre flick in there. Surely the 75-100 ought to have at least a couple of em, stuff like TAKEN, THE INTERNATIONAL, RED CLIFF, SWEENY TODD, SEXY BEAST, OUTLANDER, THE MIST. Y'know flicks that we all know aren't worthy of being in a top ten but you feel some love for anyway.
All we got was a bunch of dramas and biopics. The dude's movie taste buds are a LONG way from mine. -
Yes, it was around 2:30/2:40 - whatever it takes.
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Dec 03, 2009 1:21:22 PM CST
And DVader, I'm not sure if the Vatican reversed their stance
by hawaiian organ donor
If so, then they really need to make amends for the millions of AIDS infected people they are partially responsible for when they preached differently.I pity the motherfuckers here who haven't seen Red Cliff. Best movie experience of the year.
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That guy's favorite sport is to bash on Avatar adnc all it the worst movie ever made even before watching it. The dude also gave Terminator Salvation 4 stars in his review for Empire Magazine. He's insane.
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AsimovLives missing the sarcasm of my joke.
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See what you gone done?
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I thought the International was kind of tepid. Not bad, but nothing memorable. And Naomi is really looking her age in that one.
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and learn how a real man behaves. For shame.
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To bwe fair to Mr Beaks (and this hurts me more then you can imagine), but he just listed his bottow quarter of his fave movies. Maybe many of those you mentioned he puts way above the list, you know? Something tells me he will put Transformers at the top 25. He really loves the evolving sensebilities of Michael Bay.
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Did I?
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should do shampoo commercials. With a bottle that explodes.
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Funny enough, i named you one of the top best talkbackers at AICN. Did you felt so insulted you are doing your best to fuck it up?
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Yeh blew it.
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He already did. Look at his hair, never settled down afterwars. The man is now stuck with a everlasting 80s mullet.
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A pederast goat raper, such as yourself, has no place to speak about anything. Since you lie like a fucking rug, and are as bright as one of those useless Al Gore light bulbs, it really is no surprise chicken fucker that you don't know what you are talking about AGAIN. Seriously jizz rag how a cheap rent boy like yourself has flaming homophobia is stunning. It must be due to living in that backwards cesspool of an alleged cuntryPortugal it needs to be used as a nuclear waste dumping site it can only help. Now go attend to to your flock animal fucker.
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Oooook, but you see why I'm pressing the issue is because when I straight up ask you8 what you don't like/would change, you don't give examples. This makes it look like you don't know what you want the film to deliver in the first place. And Please, don't just say "______ is TEH GHEY!!??!11?!".. Tell me what you think is flawed specifically.
Ex. I think the uniforms were weak compared to TOS and even the later TNG uniforms. However I think I get what they were going for (day to day semi-disposable w/ color coding) I'm guessing laundry isn't priority 1 in space travel. -
I saw that. I wasn't sure if you are THE AsimovLives or one of the many imposters.
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No point in going through the motions of "oh my god, you picked ____ to be on this list? your taste sucks!" because you stated pretty clearly that this is YOUR list, no one else's. that won't stop me from commenting on how the movies on this list so far have affected me, however... 1) my Dad rented "The Ice Harvest" on DVD when it came out, we watched it, and we loved it. I could be wrong, but I think it was around the same time that we saw "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" which I loved even more. two good movies there. 2) "Wet Hot American Summer" is one of my all time favorites... absolute cult classic filled to the brim with iconic moments(like Joe Lo Truglio halting his pursuit of Ken Marino because there is a bale of hay in his way). "fondle my sweaters? i didn't say that. no, i said fonduuu cheddar." 3) "Tambien" is an amazing coming of age tale, but I still prefer "Children of Men" amongst Cuaron's library. but I can see why you'd go with "Tambien." 4) i love "Friday Night Lights" solely because they play a song by Refused at the end. 5) "Chopper" is fucking amazing... violence portrayed in such a brutal, honest fashion. I am one of the least squeamish people in the world... but there were scenes in that movie that had me tempted to cover my eyes. Bana's performance, Dominik's direction, and the sardonic, sadistic wit of the screenplay make for an amazing movie. 6) "Adaptation" is mind-bending in such a good way. Charlie Kkauffman is at the very top of the list of "watch this guy's movies while on your illegal drug of choice." and thats a compliment, at least from me. 7) the fact that ANY self-respecting, self-proclaimed movie geek would have a single bad word to say about "Drag Me to Hell" is a sad, sad statement about the state of human beings these days. 8) and finally, i've been brushing up on my Korean cinema, because the good stuff over there seems to hit all the right notes for me. i've mostly been limited to the high-profile stuff like the works of joon-ho bong and chan-wook park, but you can bet your ass that i'll be seeking out "Nowhere to Hide" now. thanks for that one.
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I know, it's gorgeous. It's AWESOME HAIR!! Washed with AWESOME SHAMPOO!!
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10.Requiem for A Dream
9.Children Of Men
8.The Incredibles
7. The Entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
6. Hostel/Hostel II
5.Burn After Reading
4.GrindHouse
3.The Devils Rejects
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AWESOME
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Dec 03, 2009 1:31:41 PM CST
I'm sure you mostly missed character building moments TKD
by hawaiian organ donor
And they probably trimmed down the action set pieces a bit.Cobra, I get where you're coming from. It's unlikely that films like The Mist or The International will make anybody's list even though they deserve to be on one as long as 100. I know my list of the decade's best was filled with a fair share of Hollywood blockbusters but Red Cliff did make the cut. Deservedly.
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No, i'm the real deal, the orginal, the franchise starter.
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They need to stay the fuck out of world affairs and stick to teaching fairy tales.
Oh, and sheltering child molesters.
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of Mr. Beaks top 100 of the decade?
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Ben was awesome in that.And I love Taken. Relentless bastard, Jedi Master was.I really need to see OUUUUUUUTLAAAAAANDEEEER!
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...I check out for a couple of hours...I pop in and you guys are arguing about STAR TREK??!! AGAIN??!Good god people, snap out of it!
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I'm just saying, if your gonna put Bring It On on a Best of List you better put one of the best comedies of the decade on it, too. Faark Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen! They do not get to define film comedy in the Aughts!
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Oh man... get your fire extinguisher handy.. I sense a wall of flames heading your way...
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Holy crap, I can't believe you mentioned Outlander. That's on my list of movies to review at the other site. I've watched it, but have yet to write it up.
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from the shrunk down version of Red Cliff. And perhaps the bit with the King's sister and the poor dumb bastard in Cao Cao's army.
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I feel like 2for2true will cast me aside if I don't watch Outlander soon.
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Good to see you mate.
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I love The Mist to death. Just got the Blu a few days ago. Decent transfer but damn the grain is bad during the outdoor scenes.
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My vote for best TalkBack Name of the Year.
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If anything, i'm known in here for having writen THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of words why STINO blows and sucks. You just missed all that fun for a margin of months. As a joke i used to say that it took longer to read a lost of what's wrong about STINO then watching the movie proper,because this is one of this very rare movies which i can find a crass dumb stupid shit every five minutes or less... without even nickpicking. and i'm not even a trekkie. Only this year i mannaged to watch the complete TOS, and i know next to nothing about TNG except the name of some major characters, and know really nothing about DS9, Voyager and Enterprise. Whichs is kinda the point. Even considering the movie on it's own and forgetting it's a Star Trek movie, it's still a terribly badly made and dumb movie. It's not the worst movie of the year because Michael Bay made one too. And the later always manages to make the worst movie of any year.
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You'll be fine. Outlander is pretty weak IMO.
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Great to see you share the love for THE MIST. Terribly underrated movie. Best use of the Dead Can Dance's song "The Host Of Seraphim" since Baraka. Darabount is the man.
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Year One trumps both Transformers 2 and Star Trek, easily.
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With the ending, just like The Road.
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felt sorry for James Caviezel feeling like he apparently had to be in Outlander. Another part of me is glad he did.
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The mountain birthed a mouse, IMO. The movie is well made and there's some clever ideas in it. But really, it goes complete clichéville by the 3rd act. Still a better version of the Beowulf myth then Zemeckis's CGI abomination.
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Nobody fucks with Jesus!
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Enlight me, what's "Year One"?
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I'm well aware of your "STINO" rep, haha. I usually skim them or skip them tbh, for the reason that I find the film to be a great launching point for a new series and frankly, it just seemed like you were trolling. Today is just the first day I've decided to give my 2 cents.
I'm far from a Trekkie myself. I've seen limited eps of TOS, almost all of TNG My parents loved it so I usually watched with them, tho it's been over a decade since I've seen it) I hate DS9 and Voyager. Enterprise I heard sucked ultra balls and have never seen.
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As a fan of the original I was expecting to hate it but to my surprise I found it was a really well-done re-imagining. Very trippy and cerebral.
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I saw him speak at ones these live events/chuches where he went on and on about how he was closer to Jesus while making The Passion then anyone else on the set (I mean its not like Mel Gibson wasn't preying to Satan every night hoping that he wasn't going to blow all his money on this or anything). But he had a very holyer then thou attitude. But he was also funny, worth going into a church (even if everyone starred at you the whole time because you turned into your true beast form) to see him speak plus it was free. Now let me get back to the FUCK YOU part. I had my ticket stubs from Outlander and Passion and I wanted him to sign them. BUT NO the only thing he was signing were these $30 audio Bibles that he and some other B-listers did. And since it was in a religious place they can't break the rules and wouldn't let me in line. I bet if I showed up with an Outlander ticket he would have signed it. Fucking religious fags.
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Correct. No one. Not if the Christ is portrayed by Caviezel, or His Majesty Bale, or Dafoe.
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Falls flat on its face at the end.
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Really you don't know what Year One is? Its Harlod Ramis pissing away any respect anyone could have had for him as a director and comedic genius. Now all I know that all those fuck piles who made/wrote that movie are working on Ghost Busters 3. You all better hope that never happens. because if Ramis thinks Year One is good, he's got no idea what funny is anymore.
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was Pathfinder. What the fucking fuck was that shit?? How could this fucking assclown fuck that up? Vikings Vs Indians!! Vikings Vs Indians, man!! How the fuck did they fucked that up? Unbelievable! Clancy Brown should had gone Kruger on the director's ass! Fucking ass!! I still can't believe it!
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Jesus, is it just me or is this CoM love something new? I seem to remember it getting shafted around here when it was released.
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Everyone loves COM. Thats been pretty consistent.
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for the church, which isn't as bad as if he were profiting from his signature so I'd cut him some slack for that one.
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Yeah, I'm not down with those celebrity endorsement signing things. I get that stars have to make a living, but sometimes it gets ridiculous.
A couple years back my friend raised hell when he took his kid to a department store for a special appearance by an NFL player. The kid waited in line for a couple hours with his dad (my friend) to get his football signed, but at the end they said the guy was only signing some photo provided by the sponser, some men's clothing thing or another. It's like, okay I get it, you have a contract with them to promote their shit--but can't you sign a kid's football? What kind of message does that send? -
ZOOEY DESCHANEL...
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but it was a Satanic Bible full of daemonic enchantments and druidish incantations
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I will be surely disappointed if that is true. The whole concept sounds like gold to me, with vikings and an alien and jesus.
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NO the money didn't go to the church. It was for his Bible, here you can go buy it: http://tinyurl.com/ybd4c9g it was for himself. Plus I mean come on, you think he'd turn away any fan of Outlander? Seriously, you think he'd love someone to talk to him about something else then Passion.
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How is Altaira?
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I thought it was an ok post-apocalyptic film, better than most of its genre, but not the overrated wet dream most people here think it is.
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I LOVE The Piano Teacher.
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You've got to be kidding me?! The ending is epic! REALLY think about how you would feel if you went through that. I love the breakdown into complete madness.
Asimov: Agreed that the song fits perfectly. Have you seen the B&W version? I actually prefer it to the color. Adds so much atmosphere and makes the film feel like an old episode of the Twilight Zone.
Speaking of TZ, I recently got the entire series and have been watching them from the begining. Fuck me, there is so much brilliant stuff in that series! I've seen my fair share of episodes but I'm just amazed at how ahead of it's time it was... well, minus astronaut walking around mars w/o space suits in cowboy boots, haha. But the questions it raised back in the late 50's were so taboo at the time I'm shocked it was so embraced. -
Pull my finger.
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What did I Di'nt do?
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Since DocMorbius can mention Zooey, I am gonna cheer on my man-crush Gene Hackman. HEIST (2001) is a solid pic. Respect.
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I'M NOT HERE AS A CELEBERITY, but as a person of god? WELL I'M SORRY if your not there because you are fucking famous then why the fuck would I come to see you talk? Plus I would've paid like $5 for him to sign my ticket stub, but mainly I didn't want to pay $30 for some fucking thing I would never use. AND I BET if they just let me in the line he would have signed it, but like all things religious they were fucking PULLING people out of the line who didn't have a book in their hand and giving those people dirty looks. THIS FUCKING PLACE you can donate money when they pass the money jar around via CREDIT card. They have little slips of paper next to the bibles in the back of the seats in front of you where you can write your info down. I should have taken some slips when they passed the money by me. Fuck it they wanna piss their money away someone may as well enjoy it.
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And I think Clive was perfect in that role, an everyday man who sure as hell didn't want to do anything, and yet ended up saving the woman and child, and perhaps humanity.
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Dec 03, 2009 2:00:22 PM CST
I can understand why people didn't like the ending of The Mist
by hawaiian organ donor
But everyone, and I mean everyone has to admit the monster that walked across the road at the end was the coolest goddamn in cinema in years. I want to see a movie just about him.
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I thought it was ambitious, but ultimately it did not live up to it's premise. It was just an OK flick that bored the hell out of me at times.
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About enterprise, i can't get pass the terrible opening song. for that song alone, fuck Enterprise. no, really. all it's virtues can't overcome the complete terribleness of that shitty song. It's like a Celine Dion but sang by a man. Need i say more?As for TOS, i hav eno shortage of admiration for it. I love it as anybody can without going trekkie on it. And part my admiration for the vision and the intelligence that was put on it is what feeds my disgust for the Jar Jar Abrasm's abomination. The other part is fed by my love for cinema, and the complete trashing that Abrams does with his fucking movie.As for trolling, no troll writes thousands of words on a subject and detail their though process and the basis for their opinion. Trolls only says "MOVIE SUX ASS!!! and leave to be seen no more for the whole run of the talkback. Trolls are not people who just disagree with you.As for a movie that is a great beginignof a franchise, it's not the Jar Jar Abrams's one you should look to, but the one made by the really talented director, Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. That's how you do it. And without sacrifcing intelligent, smart and wit for the sake of some dumb notion of entertaiment. Adn it's clear that STINO wants to be Batman Begins when it grows up... which it will never, because it's a piece of malformed progeria mutant trash.
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My problem with The Mist, was it was too fucking fast. Are you going to tell me that they are just going to STOP wait for like 5 minutes hear some noise then just off themselves? After the WHOLE movie I was thinking how SMART those characters were. Then like a minute after it happens other people show up? WAY TOO fucking convenient.
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Dec 03, 2009 2:02:46 PM CST
Big interview in Empire mag, Yack. Hackman has retired
by col. tigh-fighter
Sad fucking day, indeed.
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If I want something cool signed I'll buy stuff from here
http://tinyurl.com/ybuxvaf or here
http://tinyurl.com/d9rbvu
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Nothing wrong with Hackman - when he is invested in a role, although he certainly lived up to his surname in the 80's just being a hack and taking on every possible role for a check. I do not fault anyone for making a living doing what they do best - unless it involves goats.
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How is that sad? I mean look at the amazing movies Robert De Niro and Al Pachino are putting out these days? I say good for him.
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when you say "retired," you mean from acting, right? Not from fisting?
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You will enjoy it.
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But "Uncommon Valor" was TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION!
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Dec 03, 2009 2:10:28 PM CST
I most apologize DrMobius but fuck Zooey Deschanel
by hawaiian organ donor
She was a favorite of Latte Girl and since Latte Girl f'ed me, I obligated to dislike her. Besides, I honestly don't think she's a very good actress and her face interests me about as much as light beer.
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AKA Darth Vader AKA MAN IN SUIT!!!
When I was 12 my mother dropped me and my best friend off at a small sci fi convention where he was appearing. After waiting in line for about 30 minutes, we get to the table and ask him to sign the 12 in Darth Vader Figures we both brought (and bought JUST FOR THE SIGNING mind you) Well, Mr. "I played Darth Vader even tho you NEVER SEE MY FACE OR HEAR MY VOICE" Prowse told us to fuck right off because he was only signing his own headshots.. $20 for a 4X6 B&W and FUCKING $40 for a 5X7 Color. When we said we didn't have enough $$$$$$ to pay him, he took pity on us by ASKING SECURITY TO ESCORT US AWAY!!!!
FUCK YOU DAVID PROWSE!!!
YOU ARE A MIME!
MIME!!!
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It was godawful! The funny thing was when they re-mixed the song in the last season but all they really did was speed it up and shorten it. It still sucked it was just quick like a bandaid.
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Just sayin'
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It started, like our century and millennium did, on Jan. 1, 2001.
It ends on Dec. 31, 2010.
That's why the film was called "2001, a space odyssey", and not "2000..."
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I didn't think OUTLANDER, BEOWULF, THE MIST, TAKEN were brilliant but I did enjoy them. I'm a genre fan, thats why I visit this site. And they're exactly the sort of films i'd put in the 75-100 category.
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Yeah fuck Zooey Deschanel. I hate her too. Fucking annoying twat. She just seems like she'd be SUCH a fucking bitch in real life. AND OHHH GET THIS, its a hipsters match made in Hipster heaven. She's married to the lead singer of that really gay band everyone likes. Deadcab I think?
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Dec 03, 2009 2:13:07 PM CST
Abom. Hackman will be burried with his fist up a cunt
by col. tigh-fighter
Be sure of that. In fact the old fart now writes history adventure fiction with his old scuba diving buddfy lol. Classic pulp ficion shit set in the wild west. He's happy as Larry and has no intention of coming back for anyone lol Like Raoul Julie, Hackman left acting on a high point with Welcome To Mooseport with Ray Romano. FFS!!!Good point, Series. After watching What Just Happened yesterday, I can only wish De Niro had left them want more. Fucking pile of shite that film was.
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It was TFD!
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Go get him BringingSexyBack!!!
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You should have used a Jedi mind trick and waved your hand and said, "We don't need to buy your 4x6 head shot. You'll be perfectly happy to sign this 12" figure."
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Seriously.
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The original Twilight Zone is just pure brillance. Rod Sterling deserves the legendary status he has. Fully deserved. For me, he's one of the great examples of alltr hose who delivered great entertaiment without sacrificing intelligence. Best kind of entertainment there is.
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Late to the party, as usual.
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went to that same guy at Giants Stadium who beat up the Scorpio killer for like, twenty bucks, to make it look good, like Callahan did it.
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Please just stick to Megan Fox, fellas. Agree that Deathcab for Cooch is a douchebag band though.
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Then again, at $20 for every 4x6 and $40 for every 5x7, if there's like fifty people in line, that buys a lot of COKE
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I'm going to agree with you on that. Except i think his work as director and actor in THE GOOD SHEPHERD is great. Terribly underrated movie.
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Ok, I just went to Youtube to see the opening theme to Enterprise... I clicked on 3 videos before realizing that those were the real opening. I sear I thought I was being Rick Rolled or something. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!
I see what you're saying and since you know you're shit otherwise, I'll say we can agree to disagree :)
@Series7: ***MIST SPOILERS AHEAD*** I can understand that, but I guess after 2 days of monster attacks, murders and seeing schoolbuses filled with embalmed children, running out of gas in the middle of nowhere probably seems like the end anyways. Also, after they stop, listen to the BG noise and you can hear a roar not too far off. I think a bullet to the head would be preferable to getting eaten :P
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It was the best kind of party - unplanned and people just popping by bring a case of arrogant bastard ale or flying dog double dog!
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Cha-ching!!!
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Actor Gene Hackman, who recently announced his retirement from acting during an interview with EMPIRE Magazine, said he will be publishing his memoir this spring.
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Dec 03, 2009 2:21:40 PM CST
And I liked 500 Days of Summer in spite of Zooey
by hawaiian organ donor
Worst movies of the decade? Easy.1. Blindness 2. Crash 3. Sex and the City 4. Signs 5. PotC 2&3 6. Ghost Rider 7. Rise of the Silver Surfer 8. Ocean's 12 9. Gosford Park 10. Crystal Skull
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Mmmmmm....mighty fine, as alays.
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Prowse makes the shithead list for cruelty to children.
Caviezel makes the shithead list for religous reasons.
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Dec 03, 2009 2:23:12 PM CST
Shogun, dudes wearing rubber or plastic suits never get love
by toadkillerdog
Unless they are in a Tarantino flick or in chains - or both.
Prowse was just trying to get his! -
Actor Gene Hackman has said through his agent that he is happy to sign copies of his new autobiography, "Fisting Miss Tessmacher," for fans--but it will cost $100 a pop and he will ONLY sign copies of the book and nothing but the book, unless you bring a chick who shows her boobs
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Actually, i think the only thing they blow up in Uncommon Valour is a shack. It's more like VERY LITTLE PARTIAL DESTRUCTION.
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I still don't buy it. I would at least want to see the monsters before I started putting bullets in my kids head. CALL ME OLD FASHION.
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Oh, I will line up for that book!
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The Happening, in which even I and I think BSB will admit Zooey sucked in.
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As sacrilegious as it may be, who could replace the lovely nekkidness of Anne Francis in the remake?
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I probably would hate Zooey otherwise. I'd just be mildly annoyed by her. But Latte Girl f'ed up my life to the point I hate Zooey now because she adored her. Shit, the more I think about the past 6 months of my life, the more I feel for Tiger.
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Ooh Abom don't get me started on Miss Tessmacher. I had a sci fi book as a kid and it featured a b&w still of Valerie Perrine's bare tits from an old flick Slaughterhouse 5. My earliest childhood memory was staring at that pic long and hard.... the phrase 'big naturals' forged itself into my brain that day.
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I don't think all the midichlorians in the universe would be enough to persuade that old fucker.
Zooey Deschanel is boring and her bangs look fucking stupid. She also has a disturbingly husky voice and dresses like a hobo. Also I'm pretty sure she enjoys Meth. Oh and she shit the bed as the worst Dorothy Gale in the history of Oz adaptations.
Asi, you're 100% right. Sterling is a god for giving us the Twilight Zone. I've watched some interviews with him and he was just a class act all around.
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I liked Zooey as a blonde in "Elf"
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I used to hate Megan Fox... until she badmouthed Michael Bay. Now i kind like her. Maybe there's more then meets the eye about her after all.
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Just like I avoided Lady in the Water. M Night lost me permanently after The Village.I loved, L-O-V-E-D the Mist, but I will agree with Series on that one point. I think a few monsters should have been seen coming out of the mist towards them before lead started flying.
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I really wanted to like it, but it just didn't interest me enough. I kind of equate it to how I felt with The Assassination of Jesse James...performances were good but I just couldn't get into it and ended up just being bored by each movie. I guess like some feel with Children of Men.
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Gene Hackman. HEIST (2001)
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shogun, midichlorians yeah wtf was that. In some old tb I also asked 'was Anakin actually 'the chosen one', and what was all that about?' - no one fucking knew.
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She's done singing in my shower and giving me the once over. She'll be over your place later today, her elf costume isn't *THAT* soiled.
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PERFECT LIST!!! Nailed it w/ Blindness being the #1 worst movie. I wanted to lead every one of those motherfuckers off a cliff. Just a stupid stupid STUPID movie!
"Boy, I wish one of us could see so we wouldn't have to be raped and murdered anymore..."
"I can see just fine LOL"
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The last girl that messed me up I watched Juno with and she really dug it, so I will never watch that movie ever again. And that's a good thing.
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No, they never existed. I tell you, i dreamed that all thing up when i watched the movie. But it was all just a dream. Ufff!!! Man, sometimes i have this weird dreams. Like this dream i once had where Spielberg made a really terrible Michael Bay-like Indiana Jones movie filled with bad CGI. The weird shit that people dream, hem?
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the kid from Transformers was in the Indiana Jones movie, and he played Indy's son. Ahahhahahah!!! How crazy is that, hem? Only in dreams!
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WOW....A MIME YOU SAY!
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Are you a version of me from another dimension? I also recently bought the entire Twilight Zone box set on Amazon ($125, a damn good price for how much you're getting) and can't get enough of it. Some of the shit they covered is really fucking dark, especially considering the time that it came out. Sure, some of the episodes are a little too goofy (the Civil War ones generally haven't held up well) but the show is still incredible.Also, for any fellow Netflix users, 17 episodes from the first season are available on instant play.
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You may end up thinking that you got billions of dollars to blow on doing what ever the fuck you want in life. I hope after this Tiger just goes off the deep end and starts showing up to golf things with an entourage of slutty ass women. Wouldn't get me watching golf, but at least I'd know there is actually ONE MAN out there practicing the skill.
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thanks, I'm going to make her sing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" while doing my dishes and laundry, and then I'm going to dress her in a harness like a reindeer and feed her my candy cane
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I know exactly which picture you are talking about! Yes, Perrine is an all time favorite and totally natural and big!
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Should've been like, "how you gonna do me like this man? Don't do me like this."
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devincf - How many bloggers doing 'best of the decade' lists were teens or younger when the decade started?
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It would have been nice to see them have more incentive I guess, but I like how he just turns his back and welcomes death after what he had just done. I mean, as far as they knew, the world was over. His wife was dead and those poor bastards lived in the sticks.
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Its a good thing you are no longer with a girl that likes Juno, be thankful for that.
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was probably Wedding Crashers. God, what a waste.
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I do udnerstand your opinion of Good shepherd and The Assassination Of Jesse James. Though i disagree with you, i understand your point of view. I guess those two movies are a bit of an acquired taste, as they say.. Well, you have to understand that i grew up watching many of those classic 70s movies, and many of them have this laizured pacing to them. so, i acquired a taste for that type of movies. I even love that type of pacing, and i welcome that kind of movie, as a change of pace (no pun intended), as a nice contrast to the majority of the movies being made today, wtih too many of them suffering from too fast pacing, mostly done for gno good dramatic reason whatsoever. In fact, most of the movies i have found the most boring made recently are the more fast paced, like the two Transformers movies. Those two movies bored the fuck out of me like nothing before.
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Yeah the Mist a good ending would have been this. They start seeing the monsters, like BUNCHES of them running toward them (like the scene from Jumanji but with monsters). Then Punisher is like "get ready to be punished" them BAM BAM BAM BAM! He's got the gun to his head, and he's screaming "BRING IT MOTHER FUCKERS HERE COMES LEROY JENKINS!!!" Then either they just run past him and are being chased out by the military, or it fades to black then BAM!
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but I think that's what I like. It's probably what you would get when you get a bunch of random people together in a public place, trapped due to some crazy circumstance. That circumstance would show the best and worst in people.
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Dec 03, 2009 2:46:14 PM CST
it may have been just the day I saw the or something...
by just pillow talk
I wouldn't call Zodiac fast paced, but I quite enjoyed that when I watched it.
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Jaws and King Kong are two examples where the filmmakers take their goddamn time waiting to show you the monster, building the suspense. Which I imagine is partly why they work. So I agree with you that action, fast fast fast all the time doesn't always equate excitement. I remember as a kid it took FOREVER in King Kong '76 to see the monkey, damn it.
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Go watch Year One, it'll make Wedding Crashers look like...wait you'd probably like Year One.
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is Aguirre Wrath of God by Herzog, starring Kinski.
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She gives me wood in that new commercial she's in.
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as we headed into the year 2000? Because I do. That was the fucking start of the new milennium, not January 1, 2001. So yeah, December 31, 2009 IS the end of this decade.
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The awful characters in The Mist is kinda the point of the whole story. but if you look closely, you will se that most characters are not actually bad people, only normal flawed people who are scared witless. The only truly malevolent person is the religious nutjob, and even her gets an humanizing moment when she is praying in the toilet booth. She is a human monster, but she really wants to help the people. that's the great thing about Darabount movies, he even humanises the villains, gives them vulnerable human moments. Then he goes to town with them. I actually find The Mist to be a very humanistic movie. It's just that Darabount dosn't bullshit us with how humans would probably react to such a scenario. There's a lot of the worst aspect of the post-9/11 reactions that came out to the fore in people that Darabount puts in his movie as a micro-cosmos of the modern day western world. Without sacrifing the fun. Some might find the movie bleak, but i also see a lot of humanity in it.
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I know Chris Rock said "A man is only as faithful as his options" but for many years I was a faithful motherfucker even though I oddly had a few chances to get a quick one in.The only difference with Tiger and myself is I separated from the wife and moved out of the house after my "indiscretion."And boy am I ever f'ed now.Shogun, you got that right, bro. I thought the movie was full of detestable people but Julianne Moore not stopping the women from being raped made me want to punch a midget.
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Dec 03, 2009 2:50:47 PM CST
Thrillhouse77, Devin Faraci is the dictionary definition of
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
S C U M (right next to Hitler, Pol Pot, and Robert Mugabe).When you realize that his appalling and arrogant personality is, in fact, a pathetic attempt to avoid the rejection he's had all his life (by rejecting others first), then it just becomes quite hilarious. Truly, that guy lives up to every cliche of the bed-ridden,unwashed, morbidly obese, friendless, virginial, basement dwelling fanboy waster that ever existed - with no irony or inaccurate character asassination necessary.
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omg I lol'd so hard.
Any modders out there want to make some Mist survivor skins for L4D2? We can give them a fighting chance, yet!
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Then explain why the christian callendar starts at the year 1 and not the year 0. Or are you telling me that the very first decade of the era only had nine years? Kinda contradicts the definition of decade, hem? You know, when people rightly claim that the decades end at the years ending with "0", like 2010, they do it for a very very good reason. Remember, one trillion flies eating shit make them right? Then you better start gulping the stuff too, the majority spoke!
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Quantum of Solace was kinda shitty, too. Oh, and Tomb Raider 2.
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Please...you musen't...Zooey is allergic to peppermint!
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Just gawdawful writing on that one. No, as much as I believe people will change under stress, i do not beleive that a Mrs Carmody would inspire the type of loyalty that she did in such a short period of time. It was shit! it was shit! The monster at the end was cool as fuck though, and overall I likes the flick.
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Dec 03, 2009 2:55:05 PM CST
I'd like to see what this group of TBers would do to each other
by hawaiian organ donor
If we were stuck in a Kwik-E-Mart with the world ending outside. You think I'm insane now?Juno was cum encrusted flop sweat but I can't hate Ellen Page. She's from Halifax like myself so she gets a lifetime pass.
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And he rated Terminator Salvation 4 stars. Not even Hitler would be that bad!
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Haha, Yeah I'm in Bizzaro world. Over here, fish fly in the sky and hamburgers eat people :P
I agree with you for sure. The issues that TZ addressed were very progressive. Yeah some of it's space centric episodes are dated but they make up for it in concept and story. Some favorites so far have been The Lonely, The Obsolete Man and The Shelter to name a few. 5 Characters and It's A Good Life are some favorites as well. Really can't get enough of it :) -
I love it. Your description seems painfully accurate!
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Do you have enough money to move out of the house, and go out and BUY a much bigger/nicer house? Or stay on your yacht you got for your wedding?.... its hard to feel bad for a guy with those options.
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"Remember, one trillion flies eating shit make them right? Then you better start gulping the stuff too, the majority spoke!"Does that just happen to apply to 'STINO' as well, by any chance? Thought so. Keep on fighting the good fight, sir.
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You know my favorite part of L4D2? When Coach says, "It ain't right for a man to be ridden like that" after a Jockey gets taken down. I stop and laugh my ass off every time. Good to know you play, brother. We should hook up sometime.
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Are you being subjective or objective about the calandar? Because if you start that argument about 'the majority spoke!', then you have no leg to stand on with your supposed 'objective' hatred of Star Trek - because the majority spoke and they (not I by the way) liked it.
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SDude, are you kidding?? You forgot the years after 9/11 when scumbag preachers and evangelists got a mad devoted loyal followers who ate up every shit they spewed? You forgot such sad events from such recent history already? If anything, Mrs Carmody is one of the most realistic aspects of The Mist. History has proved that.
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If I was stuck in a kwick-mart with the lot of you. I'd be the first guy willing to leave the building. And I wouldn't ask you to tie a rope around me. Fuck that I'd take my chances out there.
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is a a sperm dumpster, plain and simple. A tasteless waste of flesh who should be lobotomized and castrated so that he may never infect the human mind or body ever again.
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Dec 03, 2009 3:01:00 PM CST
Even Uncle Adolf would not wash his ass
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
with McG's smelly rags. But a whore like Faraci will do anything. Even rate GI Joe above the Dark Knight! Even Charlie Manson had his redeeming qualities, not so with Faraci!
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If you are around, you might want to archive the 'majority spoke' statement.
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Dec 03, 2009 3:03:21 PM CST
Every other decade loses a year, this is one of those decades!
by soylentmean
2010 is a leap year decade wise, besides, if we ignore it the faster we get to 2012!
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I put the entire thing on a credit card that's almost at it's limit. As of January 1st, I fully expect Edie McClure to come knocking on my door and tell me, "You're fucked."
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Thwere's only one subject about the calendar, and that's how it is. And how it is is that decades and centuries and millenia start at the 1 years and ends at the 0 years. that's howe it is. This is as objective as it is. It is what it is. The reason there was festivities in the year 2000 is that governments since the late 70s gave up on educating the people, and now people went on a fallacy just because their passion for round numbers, as if that actually means anything at all.. and if you keep on defending the notion of the decade ending on this 9 year, then you better start doing a pretty good justification on why the first decade of the christian era has to only have 9 years. You better bring up really very solid arguments, friend.
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Asimov lives on always.
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Are any of us farmers? Do we have any reason to care about the seasons? If so then you probably have an important job and shouldn't be wasting your time on here. Calenders to me are just help me mark off the days I don't have to go to work.
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Way up above. Sorry. he beat you to the punch, Morbs.
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Full of illogical cuts and time jumps and the action hardly makes sense.
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i would take my chances with the monsterous aliens. At least those don't kill each other for a percentage.
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The ENTIRE film the Tom Jane character is portrayed as a fighter, someone for whom opposition is a form of strength. Given eevrything we see up tot he point of the shooting there is nothing that would infer that this guy is a quitter unless death is literally inches from his face. Because of this the ending seems exploitative and random.
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It's the year 1500 and something or other in China, and that's what'll be universally adopted in the next couple hundred years anyway - assuming they become the new superpower, that is.
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I have not forgotten any recent history. And just spouting off about what some preacher may or may not have done, without giving specifics, or understanding the background or context, is not a convincing argument. For example: Lets say a preacher convinces his flock that Obama is the anti-christ and should be killed (and there is a preacher out there who believes exactly that), do you think he was able to do that in less than two hours subjective (movie time in the store)? No. He had months, years to lead his flock into believing what he was saying, not a few hours. Also, his flock knew who he was - and rightly or wrongly respected him.Carmody was a well known fringe dwelling suspected lunatic, - who suddenly in two hours(even under stress) becomes a sage that will inspire grown men and women to sacrifice an innocent child? Really? You truly think that is believable? In two hours subjective time? Maybe in Portugal (even that I doubt) but not in America.
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"TRhose geeks in there, they think that Jar Jar Abrams's STINO is a good movie". And the monsters would say "fuck me, what kind of derange lunatic universe we stepped into? Fucking ass!!!".On second though, maybe it would be better for me not to say anything, so not to encite the monsters to terminate your asses. That would be unkind.
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Some preacher? SOME PREACHER??? Wow, talk about an understatment!
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Guess I missed it, thanks. And, good to see you're back good buddy. Where were you, Elba?
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Dec 03, 2009 3:16:12 PM CST
I would be more than happy to put a bullet in anyone who asked
by hawaiian organ donor
Right there in the Frosted Krusty-O's aisle.Christ, almost time to go home and commence drinking. I should be hammered in, ohh, about 4 hours.
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Mandy Moore. She's a downright terrible actress (from the "Party of Five" school of emphatic pouting) but my god, in '04 she was pushing all of my buttons (pre-DJ AM). Unfortunately Wilmer "Horse Cock" Valderrama beat all of us to that ass.
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Whats up dude? How is everything? Just got my hands on a copy of District 9 and will either watch it tonight or this weekend. Apart from that, status quo here.
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would rather be trapped in a Kwik-E-Mar with Goats, he wouldn't have to chase them as far! Right ALINO? Baaaaaasimov....Baaaasimov....
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...keep it coming.
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That is not the argument, it is your use of the phrase 'the majority spoke'.
You who have constantly tried to blur the lines between an objective and subjective opinion vis-a-vis your opinion of Star Trek, which you hold as truth, while others hold merely as your subjective belief. The majority has spoken - and they overwhelmingly supported the flick. The 'majority spoke'.
I have not done any true research into the calendar year battle - but I do know it is not as cut and dried as your opinion makes it out to be. -
I think we should give some thought as to what that drive would do to someones mind. Imagine driving through dense mist, seeing dead bodies strewn about and wrapped in acidic spiderwebs. You see your wife cocooned in the walls of your home. You drive till your tank is empty and and there has been no sign of rescue in days. 4 bullets wouldn't seem like much help after witnessing a monster that dwarfs some of the biggest skyscrapers on Earth. As brutal as it is, killing your 9 year old son would be an act of mercy.
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You'll be a true movie geek in no time, lockes!
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Haha, Mandy Moore was for sure an under-rated beauty. Acting ability and horse-cock penetration aside, she's still damn gorgeous.
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Dec 03, 2009 3:25:22 PM CST
I wonder how Beaks feels about us talking about anything
by hawaiian organ donor
But his article.And don't kid yourself Yack. You and I would still throw one into Mandy Moore regardless if Wilmer had just finished dumping a load into her. She's adorable.
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Dodge, and try to obfuscate and avoid speaking to the point. Either back up your argument about Mrs Carmody being in any way believable - by showing that her kind has arisen in the real world - and shoe the context other than just saying a preacher this or that(which Mrs Carmody was not even), or accept that her written characterization was a complete and utter piece of shit.
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These guys don't read the articles they post after like 10 comments. Fuck they don't even read each others post anymore. Just look at the double PTA story on the main page.
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Cant speak for Yack, but I would definitely slip Mandy Moore the sausage, she has always been a little hottie.
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I am out dude!
I will keep an eye out for Ms Durance! Yes, Mandy would be done in a heartbeat - as long as she was an option! -
Gotta run, me mum isn't feelin' well, goin' for a visit.BTW...did you get a RtR X-Mas ornament?
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Hell, if anything, it was his protege Zemeckis who lost his way this decade. Off target there Mr.Beaks.
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I go by the name Scadooshbag. And I'm usually hunting zombies 7 nights a week.Mrs. Carmody was a slight issue I had with The Mist (I actually have a few) but I was willing to let it slide. And ironically that probably makes me a hypocrite because I didn't show Trek the same generosity.
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Her eyebrows are strange. I'm sorry, but they look like they've been worked harder than a day laborer in Dubai.
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I think on the subject of THE MIST that a menagerie of 'hell spawn' monsters showing up and wiping everyone out would be a total game changer. Everyone would be freaked out. Rational thought turned upside down. Mrs Carmody's appeal is that she provides answers, reasons. From the comfort of the sofa it's obvious she's full of shit but if you were actually in that situation perhaps you would gravitate towards the one person offering an explanation.
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You can blame King for any Carmody issues because The Mist is ridiculously faithful to the book. Only thing they removed was Drake and Amanda fucking in the managers office and the ending was expanded.
Don't get me wrong I fucking HATED Mrs. Carmody, but it's because I loathe religion in general. Look at the world today and you still have people like her, despite all advances in science and medicine, who will die for the idea that Uncle Bob up in the clouds will favor them. Watch the scene where she is crying and praying in the bathroom stall. The look of joy in her eyes when she offers to be "his" messenger. She is a sick sick person. TBH, she nearly ruined my first viewing of The Mist, but after giving it some thought, I SHOULD have hated her and for that I think the character succeeds tremendously.
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Thjere's so much you can do faced with impossible odds, as Thomas Jane character saw the situationhe was on. and his killing of this son is the most self-less act. He gave his kid a quick death, and subjected himsefl for a gruesome death. In fact, he sacrified himself for the best of everybody around him. That's an warrior attitude. The movie admires Jane's character for that kind ofslefless act. But there is another theme that makes it's head shown by the very end, and that is that Darabount truly believes that hope should never die, no matter what. Jane's character did the noble thing from the situation he saw in, but the mvoie tells that we can only see a tiny part of the whole picture, and this is why we still have to keep hope, because who knows, maybe salvation is just around the conner. But the thing i love most about the movie is how unjudgemental it is about the main character's action, despiste professiong a completly opposing idea.
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I also think this goat fucker business is fucking lame. No one deserves to have their nationality insulted or to be bullied like that imho.
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What the devil are you doing attending one of those meetings for? Christ almighty that's the lunatic fringe turned up to eleven.
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The fact you hated Mrs Carmody is the highest praise you could had given that movie, the writing, the directing, and the great acting from Marcia Gray Harden.
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For sure, man. Looking forward to battling the undead with you in the future, haha.
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But this is how this little fascist fucks get to show their true colours. I bet this same pussies would bleed fromtheir asses by the merest slight mention of their own country that wouldn't match their super-rosy vision. Basically, they are fucking spineless fascist fucks.
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My uncle has fallen in with those lunatics and hence, why I don't speak to him anymore.
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I didn't need to dodge the subject. All you need is to see any videos from the preachings of the tele-evagelists and the evangelical fire and brimstone preachers. They make my argument completly. And i fear for you if you still can't understand what the point is, with such clear examples.
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I'm very sorry that somebody of your family has fallen into such personal disarray. Frankly, i see no big difference between those religious nuts and the druggies and the drunks. They are all hooked on something that is sapping and destroying their soul, while not realising it.
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I don't know what those are? But we have an uncle that got all religious and right before my grandma died she converted or some shit? So during her funeral we my uncles crazy Church host. And about half way through my grandma's very German friends that hadn't seen her in a while said. "What the fuck is this? She doesn't want this." Everyone started laughing, but the church host kept on going, then offered a chance for anyone to COME up and convert, we all just sort of stared at each other. It was funny and very sad at the same time.
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I promise that given the slightest chance I would put Mandy Moore on a strict liquid Protein diet.
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But I'm off home to see if my carpet has been cleaned and water heater replaced. And to get good and drunk. Cheers!
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You still need to provide a very good reason for why the first decade of the christian era should only have 9 years.
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Is that they got NO fucking issue with making a COMPLETE asshole out of themselves about religion. Like they think in their mind that it precedes basic human etiquette. Anyone seen that sketch from SNL during the Utah Olympics? With some skier about to win a race, when Dan Akroyd and William Ferrel ski up next to her trying to convert her? Yeah assholes like that.
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You can crap on the druggies and religious zealots all you want and I'll back you up, but lay off the drunks, man. My alcohol dependence is all that keeps me going.
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conspiracy, don't know if you've had an hour spare to read this whole thread but there's been a bit of love coming your way. This one's thrown up a 'whos who' of talkbackers.
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Rewatching District 9 is one of my definitions of spending a good time with a cool thing to do. why don't you make for a Brainy SF dual movie Experience and watch it back to back with Moon? I'm rewatching Moon right now, and i love it even more then i did first time i saw it... and i loved it a hell of a lot first time! God, i love that movie!
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I made myself misunderstood. What i wanted to say was not people like us who loves to have a good drink. i mean the bozzos, the alchoolics. The hopeless ones who no longer can see the difference between an enjoyment and an addiction.
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I dare say though I am nowhere near worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as "The Professionals" and the others mentioned above...their knowledge of film and brutal, rapier TB wit far FAR exceed mine. All those guys/gals(?), the good, bad, twisted and insane named above MADE and contribute to this site as much as the guys who own it; they are the reason I come here. I Salute you all.
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is the Tber named TheGoatF*cker because he knows of that of which he speaks.
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The Larry Flynt of TBs. Fuck yes.
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and it proves that top 100 is way too many for this shitty decade.
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because Mr. Beaks says so.
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I was insanely busy the past month. And I mean insanely busy, averaging 4 hours of sleep a night for a few weeks. Work has slowed up some and allowed me to catch up on my sleep, but after Harry and Capone's "Christmas Carol" reviews, I found my old name, D.Vader, blocked. It wasn't banned because all my old posts still existed, but I couldn't log on anymore. I asked Quint for help and he said he would. But nothing ever happened, and I continued to email him once a week for the past month and he has never ever responded. I'm actually pretty annoyed with him over that. Emailed Harry too, but that guy never responds to emails unless it benefits him directly I bet. Anyway, I made this new name, sans period, andhere I am. Good to see you too! And good to be back.
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whatever the flick THE WAYWARD CLOUD is all about. I looked it up on Google and other places, and from what I can tell nobody seems to want to say it's bad, but everyone WANTS to say it's good, and EVERYBODY talks up the disturbing images of strange pornographic images. OLDBOY disturbed me, and I haven't seen a good disturbing film a long, long while. I think it's time. This sounds like my ticket.
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1. Because, according to the powers that be here, it is the real Bob Orci. And...2. Because he has become the poster boy for masochistic narcissism by ONLY talking in TB's about his own projects, where he is almost always assaulted for hackery and overt mediocrity. Yet..he takes the punches without the slightest hint of getting pissed or fighting back.Of course...being Bob...I doubt his skills are up to the task of doing such...I wouldn't want to get into a TB flame war with you guys, I doubt Bob wants to either..even if writing is supposed to be his profession. hahaha
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Starring a James Bond with a face that looks like it got whacked by a fence post.
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You earned your shout outs with that Promise Keepers joke alone.
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Damn this has been a good TB :) Off to chill with some friends. Love and Peeeaaaaccccccceeeeeee!!!!
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Saw that brought up earlier... thats a movie that would definitely crack my top-10 of the decade. That said, I can COMPLETELY understand how a lot of people could be bored to tears by it. Its over 3 hours long, and really... nothing happens in it until about the 2 hour and 40 minute mark. But its such a captivating character study, with such amazing performances from one of the best ensemble casts in recent memory. And jesus, Roger Deakins cinematography! Probably the most beautifully filmed movie i've ever seen. the fogged-out train robbery with silhouettes back lit by the train's headlight... the shots of the rolling, snow-covered Kansas hills... Deakins is the best in the biz. not to mention, the much-discussed goddess Zooey Deschanel is in it! huzzah! god i love that woman
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He just uses comedy to defuse the situation. Stooping to our level by tossing out gross insults would be self-defeating in his case, I think.
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Observe and Report? I 'HART' HUCKABEES? Taladega Nights? Miami Fucking Vice?
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This may mean nothing to any of you, but I just discovered something I consider pretty cool, and you guys are the only ones I know who may feel likewise. Any of you remember an animated helicopter video game from the mid-80's called Cobra Command. It was a sit down game in the vein of Space Ace and Dragon's Lair, but was a gazillion times cooler. Well, it's now available as an iphone App, and it's exactly the way it was in the mid-80's. It's amazing.
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that decade looks positively 70s compared to the 2000s.
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Jar Jar Abrams Star Trek is fucking terrible. It shits on everything Star Trek has ever stood for. It's just a generic sci-fi action adventure. It could have easily starred Will Smith.
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Do you spent the whole game yelling "COBRA-LALALALALALALALALAALAAAAAAAAA!!!" every time you shoot someone? I would.
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There are no people in the game, though, but the animation appears to be similar in style to anime...only with helicopters and tanks and shit, flying through New York City, Easter Island, and other international locales.
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LALALALALALAAAAAAA
From my collection ;) great game and good to see some love for it again!
http://i46.tinypic.com/208bac8.jpg
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Dec 03, 2009 4:55:49 PM CST
I suppose that 100 people could make a top 100 list...
by ccchhhrrriiisssm
...and they would all be different. I am interested in seeing how this one ends up...but I will probably disagree with the order. Besides, I have disliked half of the entries on this list thus far.
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I had a copy of Moon but the audio was not in sync, that's what happens sometimes when you...*ahem* acquire copies of movies in devious ways...he he he. But I will hunt around for a good copy, have heard much good about it.
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...the version I'm talking about was animated. It was unavailable until two weeks ago when it was released as an iphone App. Check out the youtube video...the opening even has that cool 80's VHS movie retro feel. http://tinyurl.com/nrop5c
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I made your list! Alright! Of course, I am an independent with CONSERVATIVE leanings (not a Republican) and, yes, I do have a clue. I think that it is funny that some mindless liberals get their panties in a twist when someone says something that they don't want to hear. Girlie men? But hey, thanks for including me on your list!
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Or are you just saying his responses here use up his well of comedic subtlety, so subtle as to be unnoticed, and that's why we get Scotty in the Sewer pipe and farting robots on screen?I got nothing against the guy as a human...but damn I wish he'd 'splain himself here.
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I typically don't like being negative (don't ask me what I'm doing on a message board like this, but anyways), so this pains me to say that I feel I have lived through a mostly wasteful decade. In fact, the best thing we can get from this decade is what NOT to do in film and other storytelling mediums. I am sure I'm not alone in finding the vast majority of films to be either remakes or "reworkings" of older concepts, such as old vintage TV shows made into films (some of them bizarre with a kind of why-would-you-do-thatness to them, such as ASTRO BOY), and even the ones that aren't remakes are taken from books. I LOVE books, and graphic novels, but this decade I have missed the hardcore screenplay writers who work that medium solely. Just as the 80's will be remembered for (mostly) awful horror films, and the 90's for the CGI boom, I think the 00's (the naughties?) will be remembered for the utter surrender to "safe", prepackaged endeavors with the hopes of banking on a built-in audience following a story from the book's fan following, or the nostalgia of some old TV mod squad series. I hope this is behind us, and I hope that we've learned NOT to do this again. I hope Hollywood returns to us film fans, and reconnects with us through the lessons that THE DARK KNIGHT taught us about film-making(BTW, I predict TDK will be #1 on this list). God, Athena, Odin and Allah bless us all in the new decade! And may the Force be with us (cuz nobody else is listening to us).
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I've seen a fair share of witty responses from him on these TBs to some pretty vile insults that have been tossed his way.
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Were a Michael Bay creation.
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Year 1: 2000-2001
Year 2: 2001-2002
Year 3: 2002-2003
Year 4: 2003-2004
Year 5: 2004-2005
Year 6: 2005-2006
Year 7: 2006-2007
Year 8: 2007-2008
Year 9: 2008-2009
Year 10: 2009-2010
Again, how is this up for discussion? Do you talk about the 80's and leave out 1980? The 90's and ignore 1990? We have less than a month until this decade ENDS. Nothing to discuss. -
Recently did some research on the Auto-Tuner, and found out it's that device you hear in all the hip-hop songs today that makes the artist's voice sound so wonky and "wavy." It turns out a rapper named T-Pain started that craze using it on every song on his first album, and now nearly everybody does it, except for a few artists who are against it. Apparently, Nelly Furtado is the only artist at her recording studio that's never used it. Now, with the Auto-Tuner, you don't need the requisite talent needed to be true artist, because the Auto-Tuner will fix it for you. The reason hip-hop artist's vocals go up and down with this effect is because, in truth, they sing so badly that the Auto-Tuner cannot even FIX their vocals, so it gets as close as it can, and we are meant to believe this is an intentional "effect." Now, I love some classic hip-hop and rap, even some of the modern stuff, but this trend is disturbing if you imagine a future where you can punch in a few character's names in a computer, pick a genre, a theme, and a computer will WRITE A BOOK for you! Modern moviemaking is almost formulaic enough to reveal a kind of "Auto-Tuner" already, only it's not QUITE as easy as pressing a button just yet, but maybe someday special effects will fill in most of the gaps, and no CGI artist will even be needed. It seems that artists are going away, you hear this when you talk to people who paint or write, they now say "I learned to write" instead of "I felt writing was my calling," as though having a "calling" to them is some ancient idea like Flat Earth. I dunno, it's late and maybe I'm rambling. Just been on my mind recently. C'ya, guys.
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Soylent, we've got a few monks, mormons, and morons, intent on working to the Gregorian calendar. You can only lay the dates out and hope they decide to join the modern world...
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Dec 03, 2009 5:50:42 PM CST
Good Fuckin' GAWD you are a colassal pile of DUNG Mammaries!!!
by sal_bando
AKA Blade runner Eunuch and Asshole Lives! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you up your goat-semen encrusted ass end. Almada's leper population has you to thank for the HIV that courses thru their veins--ditto the anthrax. Nice going. May you die w/ a boxed set of Abrams Trek DVD rammed up your ass.
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People, the masses, changed where decades and centuries end for simplicity and convienence sake. It made more sense to most people to have the tens digit included (1970-1979, 2000-2009) than exclude it. It is the same thing we do with language (THIRTY-one, THIRTY-eight, no THIRTY-ten, that is forty).
If we are going to complain about people change the definition of decade, we might as well complain about how New Year's was moved from May or wonder why we don't follow the fucking Mayan callendar and have a year be 1,090 days. -
For each person that says "Bob, I went to see your latest movie, and it fucking sucked!" means that's one TBer who paid $12 to see his movie. He's rich as fuck. Christ's sake, this is like banging a hot chick and having her husband walk in on you and he starts telling you "Nah, you're not fucking her right, come on, pinch the nipples!" He's STILL the one doing the fucking, guys. Bob is living the fanboy dream. And we're living the nightmare of his dream.
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Word. Thanks for the shout-outs. I'll be sure to donate some goat-proof fence for ya both.
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Now we're cookin!
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Fuck, I seriously don't get the shit that this decade gets. Yes, it gave us some absolute turds but there were some outstanding, and I mean really fucking outstanding movies made this decade.And stop just looking at Hollywood. Look at what the foreign markets made this decade. Europe, Asia and South America produced some absolute gold.And I'm a bottle of wine down at this point so I'll let the monkeys out of their cages, but fuck, the collective circle jerk over really bad movies like The Dark Knight, Star Trek and Wall*E and yet I have to feel embarrassed by naming Minority Report and The Patriot as some of my personal faves of the decade.Seriously, all these jaded motherfuckers who call the decade shit, go through it year by year on Wikipedia and don't just focus on the top ten money earners of the year, look at the wonderful stuff that's already forgotten.There are so many small movies that made this a truly memorable decade: The Visitor, Saints and Soldiers, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Downfall, American Splendor, The Hammer, Frailty, The Matador, Talk To Me, About a Boy, The Cooler, Mothman Prophecies, The Proposition and Redbelt.But all cynical motherfuckers can focus on is the shit. And yes, this decade gave us the biggest shit ever in movie history. But for every Hollywood movie like Transformers 2 we were subjected to, we were also given a Michael Clayton.I'm the most jaded bitter prick here but even I can appreciate "overall" the kick ass decade in movies we were just privy to.
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I knew I forgot someone on my list.
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Overall, this has been a horrible decade for Hollywood and American movies. Yes, there have been some good foreign movies, but my focus is on American movies (the most distributed, seen and accessable). And there have been some real good American movies, but the batting average just sucks.
And I for one blame two culprits: the war(s) and the economy. Both have hampered originality and financing of movies. If you look at 2000 & 20001, there was some damn good movies. The decade started out pretty strong and bold - unfortunately those two hurdles helped stunt the industry IMO. -
Thanks dude. #21 with a bullet baby!
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But I guess it's that n the end, my taste in movies sucks. All these fuckers hating on the Matrix sequels, Speed Racer, Will Smith movies and a ton of other shit, well, I liked them all just fine. So that skews my ratio. Still, you're a goddamn professional. Maybe THE goddamn professional so your opinion matters, bru.
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I blame the sedentary fucks we call Americans. Well, I can't actually blame them, but with the advent of home theaters becoming cheaper and better overall, a lot of people (particularly families with youngsters) choose to bag those movies for home. The movies that do the best in the theaters are those only meant to grab 30-40% of their total domestic gross in their opening weekend- the "event movie." So, whereas even 15 years ago, a movie like THE FUGITIVE could linger in the theaters for a few months and make terrific bank (it was starring Harrison Ford, true, but it did exceed expectations regardless) if that movie came out today, I guarantee you it would do PELHAM 1-2-3 numbers. People don't feel the need to see every movie they want to see at the local cinema.
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Just remember opinion is subjective. I think almost all the movies nowadays sucks, but who knows maybe I've just been passed by. Maybe I'm like a jazz fan who has just listened to Rock n' Roll and can't see how anyone can like that noise.
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That low rating is just plain wrong.
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But that's because the industry is a bunch of fucks who are behind the curve and refuse to come into the digital age. Honestly, they need to figure out a way to let someone watch Avatar at home on their 100" projected screen the day it releases in the theaters.I know there are purists out there who love the theater with an audience experience but there are those of us who say fuck that and just want to be able to watch a film at home, enjoy a beer and be able to pause during piss breaks. The current models of distribution need to change or the industry will suffer.To put this in perspective, as we speak I'm watching Black Dynamite. A screener I just downloaded. This movie was never going to play in my hometown. If I could have streamed this into my home, I would have been willing to pay for it and it's a win-win for everyone.And fuck this wine is good.
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Dec 03, 2009 6:43:09 PM CST
...YackBacker, don't forget fuckers talking in the theater....
by flickapoo
...that's the first thing that reduced my theater going dramatically. I only go see movies that I know will be loud enough to drown out the locals, the people of the land, the common clay of the new West...you know...morons.Then, as you pointed out, a small child and a decent TV drive the last nail in the coffin.
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and my fuck that was an excellent couple of rants there, Donor. Spot on. I can't believe I forgot how great American Splendor was/is. That's on my list for certain. Up to 47 now. No, of course I won't bore you w/ it, but maybe some of you senior TBers should post some more of your choices.
I just found out Red Cliff is available on the local HD Net On Demand thing and I couldn't be happier. I know it's just the truncated version but I have to see this thing.
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WTF kind of bullshit generalization is that??? People have the balls to complain if something bad is said about the country they live in (something I have never done because I have respect unlike a lot of people here). I don't know where you are from and I really don't care, but in regards to your statement all I have to say is Fuck you, you ignorant prick.
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to use Auto Tune. Remember that stool sample of a single she released some years ago? "Believe"?
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I agree about people talking at movies, makes me sick. I almost got into a fight once a few years ago because two teenage fucks could not shut the fuck up. I am constantly telling people to be quiet, fuck you wanna have a conversation, go to the lobby....better yet, STAY THE FUCK HOME AND TALK. Just as bad is when I go to, say and 11pm showing and some douche bag couple is there with a kid in a fucking stroller. If you cant get a sitter, stay home and put that infant to bed you stupid irresponsible fucks.
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But I think the two points I made (war and the economy) helped accelerate it. The war made studios afraid to offend and avoid controversy, and made the audience want escapism and avoid serious issues; the economy made studios risk averse and killed the indepedent movement, and made audiences go to movies less often and watch more TV, especially older movie goers. The theaters are now pretty much dominated by kids and families, not adult fare (of course, these are all broad points and there is a lot nuanced counter points others could bring up.
And once again, that is not to say all movies are bad, just that the percentages of movies for people like me have gone down. And sure, people can say that the stuff I like (70s and Golden Age) have now gone to TV, I can still complain because TV isn't the same as movies. The Sopranos might be just as smart, well written and as good as the Godfather, but it doesn't have the same scope and magnitude. The Sopranos is a series of Ibsen plays; Godfathet I & II are Shakespeare. And I want Hamlet and Macbeth, not A Doll's House or Ghosts. -
I'm the king of meandering worthless rants. I made them famous before Dennis Miller. No wonder I never got laid in high school.And you just helped proved my point. People really do forget great movies over time. A movie like Citizen Kane or The Dark Knight is so universally loved it becomes a given for most people. But Christ, how many smaller movies don't we watch, say to ourselves as the credits roll "that was a great fucking movie" and then forget it existed after we ship it back to Netflix?I'm a movie god, I collect movies, even the bad ones. Seriously, some of my worst movies of the decade sit in my very own collection. So that means I have all the good ones too, those ones we tend to forget about a day/week/month about later.And I already posted my top ten of the decade over at another site and I won't pimp that shit over here, but yes, Star Hump is right, let's see the TBer cream of the crop posting their top ten of the decade. It's not so easy and your results will even surprise yourself.And Hump, please by all means, expose yourself to more Asian movies. There are a dozen people here who will tell you the Asian movie kits I mailed to them changed their lives. Foreign movies in general are a godsend lately.
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Dude, didn't mean to offend America or Americans, as I am one. I'm just musing about what underlies market forces for theater business. It just stands as a theory that people would rather sit at home on their sofas (or "theater-like seats purchased at Bob's Discount Furniture, with cupholders!") then trek out to the theater. The average person goes to movies less than ever. People stay home, put their money into their home theaters and avoid the theater experience. Other factors come into play- the $12 movie ticket, the concessions that cost an arm and a leg, etc. But combined, people choose to not go to theaters as often as they did in decades past.
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There haven't even been 100 good films this decade! It has been the worst decade for movies in film history!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"So get yourself some SIDE PUSSY ™ today. It's great for the whole family."
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Seriously, do I need to school all you fools on the hidden gems of the past decade. Sometimes I think we all have our collective heads buried so far up our collective asses that we no longer focus on the smile on Mona Lisa's face.I hope that eventually someone shows up in this TB to back me up. The 70's might have been a better decade, but the 00's was sterling in it's own right.
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Apologies bro, I read that statement and just saw red immediately. I usually don't jump the gun like that I am a very tolerant person, you just kinda caught me at a bad time, long day at work, tired, grumpy. Please accept my sincere apology for my outburst. We good.That being cleared up, I agree with you on your elaborated points. I would love to take my kids to the movies every week, but damn even with bringing my own food, you're talking over 40 buck just to get in, damn I can't afford that. I still and always will go to the theaters, nothing beats the experience, and you are right about people and their home theaters. Funny thing, even if I had a 52 inch TV with surround sound, i'd STILL go to the theaters.
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I couldn't agree more Donor. My views have been limited, but man is it a thrill when you experience a heart-pumping movie that isn't shat forth from the bowels of Hollywood. I ain't seen much from across the seas, but can clearly recall reacting very strongly to movies like Ran, D13, Hard Boiled, the Dogma 95 Danish scorcher "The Celebration" and Y Tu Mama Tambien, to name a few.
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you haven't seen enough movies. With tools such as the intertubes and Netflix, hell even local libraries have film collections now, there is no excuse to not be able to name 100 fantastic films from this decade. Unless you expect every film to wash your car and cook you dinner there should be more than enough quality film from the aughts to satisfy any film lover's definition of a "good movie".
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But to sound like Harry, I have an HD projector at home (OK, at my former home where the soon-to-be ex-wife resides) and that picture quality and size is just amazing. I mean, when I think that I can watch and hear Raiders in better quality than we did when we saw it during it's theatrical runs JUST BLOWS ME AWAY.So please excuse me when I say the current movie theater experience isn't what it used to be and we need to be able to drink a beer if we're going to suffer through anything as bad as Crystal Skull.
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And I don't even have kids!
The first time I witnessed someone sneaking food into the movies was a formative experience. I went to see PLATOON with my grandma- she loved blood and guts cinema (her favorite 80s horror flick was HELLRAISER). Mind you, I'm 10 years old at the time and as we're sitting there watching this insane movie, some lady behind us pulls out some foil=wrapped treat from her purse. As she opens it, the odor fills the theater. She's eating fucking filet o' flounder! Here we are, "in the shit" and smelling fish in the theater. It was probably the ultimate smell-o-vision experience. My grandma got a little irate, but then we ended up at Red Lobster afterwards. The power of suggestion is strong! -
...into the theater should be inversely proportional to the quality of the movie...that way you never risk completely wasting your time.
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I don't have the adjectives. Yack, your story laid me low, esp being a Hellraiser fan.
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...because it had the word "beer" in it. Some sort of gateway soft drink I guess.HELLRAISER...no root beer...HELLRAISER...no root beer...
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Thanks bro, will that fence keep out the goatfucker too? Maybe even electrified in hopes that his testicles get hun up in it!
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No love for Erica? S'okay, I've got enough for both of us. Did you see her in the STILETTO costume on Smallville? Grrrr...
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Sorry you were denied root beer floats, etc. That's a shame.
I can absolutely trace my birth as a film geek back to my Saturday double-features with Grandma growing up. She took me to see ANYTHING I wanted, because she wanted to see the same shows too. We saw ROBOCOP, HELLRAISER, BEVERLY HILLS COP, POLICE ACADEMY, PLATOON, FULL METAL JACKET, GOODFELLAS, THE UNTOUCHABLES (she really loved that one), the POLTERGEISTs, HOUSE I & II, and tons of shit I can't even recall off the top of my head. She loved crime, horror and sci-fi. Once, she said to me "Love stories are for wimps." My grandma came to this country from Australia after the war-- she met my grandfather when he was stationed in the Pacific. She drank beer, rode a motorcycle and knew how to shoot a rifle. She loved anything with guns, aliens or all of the above. One thing she didn't like were vampire movies- she said that stuff was a little too real. But she did love THE MONSTER SQUAD.
She was my cinema-Obi Wan, I miss her whenever I see a movie and think "she would have loved that one." I wonder what she would have thought of TEAM AMERICA though... ah, she would have probably dug it. -
Malin Ackerman. One of the best girls to come out of the last decade, agreed?
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...as she got older...what a track record...grandma of the decade?...of the century?No worries, I skipped straight to bourbon floats.
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I love that wench. She was hot as fuck in Watchmen.
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Your Grandma, sounds like she was as cool as could be, nice little post there, AND she would have dug TEAM AMERICA. Awesome. You were one lucky kid. *envy*Malin Ackerman, the girl that did the topless scene in HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE, that Malin Ackerman?I liked A & W Brown Cows better than Floats, and Root Beer Popsickles kick ass too!
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...that was me. I said that. I say it all the time.
I can open a bottle of wine in the pitch black, btw, in total silence, like a ninja. The bitch is carrying the stemware in under my shirt.
...and Yackbacker, I now have a new role-model. Your grandma is what I want to be when I grow up. Word. -
Just a croq of $^& from tbers.
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but every other movie I've ever seen her in, even if it was just a second, she looked odd. Attractive, but odd.
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apparently and sadly enough.
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of this decade.
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just in comic book form for the time being: http://tinyurl.com/krrpox
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Amber Heard is downright filthy-hot. Trashy to the extreme. Go watch THE INFORMERS, you'll see what I mean.
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Dec 03, 2009 8:50:17 PM CST
Is it just me, or does Malin Ackerman bear a striking resemblanc
by iamnicksaicnsn
to Stephnie Weir from Mad TV? You can't UNSEE IT.
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And thanks to everyone else for your kind words. It's kind of screwed up that I'm alternating between stories about grandma and picking hot bitches out of the past ten years of cinema. But I'll just go with it...
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Good choice.
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And I'm gonna strong arm all my Meadowechlorians (both true friends and acquaintances) into buying them too, so it can hopefully lead to some more Will Friedle and Kevin Conroy awesomeness.
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...so I'll stay away from any of that "no way?!" "wtf" "that's bullshit!" stuff (even though I loath Bring It On and Miami Vice). I've seen nearly all these films and if I was doing a top 100 of the decade the only thing I'd REALLY disagree with (other than Bring It On and Miama Vice, lol) is the placement of Crouching Tiger and Ratatouille - both would be higher for me. CTHD is one of the few foreign language films I've EVER enjoyed in the theater and like better at home with the subtitles. I generally don't enjoy them because, for the life of me, I just can't watch and read at the same time. But I tried to watch the version with english dubbing and was just like, "ew!". Love it with subtitles, though. And Ratatouille, I don't know, it just works for me. I know it's not the best Pixar film, but I really love that one. Now, the compliments would be for Kinsey and Gone, Baby Gone - both of which I find to be generally underrated by film fans. Kinsey, because it's art house, and it is kinda slow - two things a lot of people seem to have a problem with these days. But the acting is stellar in that one - particularly Linney and Neeson. But the endless supporting cast still shines. Gone, Baby Gone - people want to hate it because Ben directed it. But fuck that! It IS a great movie. And Casey shines big in that one. GBG and The Assassination of Jesse James finally sold me on Casey. And I won't spoil it either, but I totally agree with what you said about the end of the film. It's also got a great line to say very calmly when you're really pissed off. "I'm not the one." lol I love that one. Anyway, looking forward to the next installment.
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and kinsey was pretty mediocre stuff. code unknown no. but really we dont have to announce dinner like it"s a damn cavalry charge bates is great! avatar, 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!fun fun funf fun fun fun in 3d fun fun at the movies wiht mom and dad fun!
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And I'm not joking... I used to be one of the people who would tell them to shut the hell up. However, where I live - especially depending on which theater I'm going to - that move is not likely to get you jumped by a large group of people or just straight shot. Again, I'm not kidding. It's part of the way our youth culture has changed in general. Manners just ain't what they used to be, folks.
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was a fart of a film wasn't it? Not time-wise, it was more like a long, terrible shit when you've been eating too much cheddar and monterray jack crackers and shit. Cheeseburgers, too. Arby's. Rubber meat death.
My brother made me go see the latest Poseidon movie where Dreyfuss plays a white-haired AARP who likes to reach under the tarp, you dig?
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She's advertised to be on @ 7:45 a.m. Friday, Dec 4, 2009. Hopefully it's a nice interview and REALLY @ 7:45, because they said the same thing about Ashley Greene, but she ended up being on @ 7:49 and only lasted about four minutes. And it was a very Shallow interview, the only good point of interest was that Ashley Greene said she worked as a waitress @ the Belmont (I think it was the Belmont). So hopefully Anna's is deeper and is at least ten minutes considering she's in a critically acclaimed film coming out tomorrow.
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The new Michael Caine movie. It's a great film about the youth culture going off the deep end.
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How about you explain WHY I'm an idiot for expressing my opinion you disease infested douche bag. Wtf you ignorant asstard? lol It ain't my list, and the author of said list saw fit to include the film I commented on. So get over yourself. And your entire post makes no kinda sense anyway. Again, lol.
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I added it to the list. Thanks for the recommendation.
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I just can't decide on that one... which I think means I don't like it. But it's one that I want to like... so I keep trying... but really, I think I don't. It's all very frustrating.
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Dec 03, 2009 9:55:12 PM CST
I'll tell you one girl that doesn't make my best of 2000s list
by yackbacker
Anne Hathaway. Attractive, yes, but here's my problem with her-- she made two huge errors in recent years (not counting GET SMART): 1) She decided it was cool to date a white collar crook and not do anything about it (leave him, girl!) but 2) when the Feds finally caught up to this bum, she turned state's evidence. So, she knew he was dirty, did nothing about it, but once the heat came around the corner, she suddenly knew a LOT about her boyfriend.
This is one of the worst kinds of girls- she likes the bad boy (but he's gotta be a certain kind of bad boy- a rich, scheming fuck) but she really can't stomach the bad boy in reality, so she cuts his balls off at the worst possible moment. She is the anti-Linda Fiorentino. Now, Linda is a girl you could knock over banks with on Friday afternoons. HOT. -
Eternal Sunshine, AI, Unbreakable, Sunshine, Synechdoche NY, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Idiocracy, There Will Be Blood, Memento, The Cell, The Matrix (too early?), LotR Trilogy, Zodiac, Blindness, Children of Men, Fight Club (again, too early?), Requiem for a Dream, District 9, The Corporation, The Assassination of Jesse James, King Kong (fuck off), Shawn of the Dead, Pans Labyrinth, and The Host. Not in any order.
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Anyone kinda wish the Potter films were even more spaced out? We get two a year, it seems.
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Decide later. Basterds will probably come around for everyone, especially my snarly ass. Damn if QT didn't make an anooying movie. Kinda liked Jackie Brown.
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freaked me out in her "rachel married" movie. The speech at the rehearsal dinner was revolting. And then Debra Winger shows up! Too much.
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and some of these movies are absolute shite
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Within the series, the last of the six HP films thus far ranks 2nd in US box office and 3rd in worldwide combined box office. It's 4th in foreign box office, but 5 of the six have made between $600 and $650 million in that category. The only thing that slowed this one down is the "second to the last syndrome". Admittedly, people just want to get to the end now. I don't think there's ever been two in one calendar year, though.
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Who's with me? HOD still working on that Double Dog?
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Never did see much discussion of it here after its release. Thought it was QT's best since Jackie. But - his act his wearing thin. He needs a change in direction for sure.
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It has died out, at least for me. I haven't even seen the last two movies... and I find no desire to sit through them. I feel like we've been fed a lot of filler along the way, and that pushes me away from a series faster than most anything else.
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And don't care what kind of shit I get for it. I don't worship at the church of Tarantino. I loved Reservoir Dogs - got it on a screener vhs before I'd ever heard of it and wore that fucker out. Pulp Fiction is still near perfect, imo. But Jackie Brown just did NOTHING for me, and the Kill Bill films only slightly more. I understand what QT is doing and can respect it on many levels. But I don't always love the end product. That's why I was hoping Inglorious Basterds would be a return to the form I love. But it's just not quite there for me... I think... meh.
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eating a vanilla yogurt (fat free). But there is Blue Label within arms reach...
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I've been too busy to see a movie. Its at the local dollar theater, but I fear it won't be there with the friday changeover tomorrow =(.
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Couldn't disagree with you more about RedBelt, and I'm a martial arts instructor. Oh, well. In any case, I'm reminded of how we lost so many great acting skill sets when cinema itself appeared, such as the classif Vaudeville guys. Back in the day, the Stooges and the Marx Brothers were from that kind of "training," and they did live theater and made large motions so that crowds in the back of a theater could see them--for instance, they'd leap in comic surprise for all to see what was happening. When cinema came along, that eventually bled away when actors realized they didn't have do that since everyone in a movie theater can see just as good as anyone else. In essence, because of an advent (film itself, a good advent that we all now love), we lost tremendous "skill sets". Watch the classic mirror sketch with Groucho Marx, where he goes to the bathroom in the middle of a night and his brother mimics him PERFECTLY for at least a few minutes. It's flawless! That kind of acting is gone, and perhaps that is only natural. Perhaps the MATRIX sequels did push some boundaries, but they've also lifted a few "skill sets" from the pool. That is only my opinion, but now it's getting to the point that an actor doesn't really have to be any GOOD at fighting since the computer boys can make him look like he's amazing, and maybe soon through voice modulation correction a performance can be made to sound more "powerful" for an emotional scene. Sure, that means more film makers on YouTube will have their chance once all of this technology becomes commonplace, but just be prepared: Someday YOU may look back and long for the days when you knew an actor was EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED in his work, and therefore there was something more powerful there that we can never quite catch in CGI form. Or, maybe I'm like the other Talkbacker who said I'm the guy who likes jazz, and now find myself wondering why everyone is into this "noisy" rock'n'roll nonsense. Just saying, whether robots replace actors or not, we're soon to depart from an era where people had more...don't know what else to call it but CONNECTION to film. Special effects are great, but if they get too much like the Auto-Tuner, or the Wa-wa pedal, then the overuse will drive you mad, I tell you. MAAAAAAAAAAD! P.S. I'd just like to add a little quote from Orwell when he wrote 1984. He said, "I don't fear a future where people have lost all their rights. I fear a future where people have lost all their rights and DON'T CARE." BTW, I'm not on a rant about politics or governments here, I'm making an analogy to how we've let our love of gadgets (I love gadgets myself) remove another human skill set from our number. But, no one in the present REALLY cares that we lost the Vaudeville actors, do they? I can see you pleading someday with your son to appreciate films like ABOUT A BOY, and him saying to you, "Get out of my way, Dad, your movies are all stupid! Now let me get back to 'Lost the Movie in 4-D' (not that I'm knocking LOST, just saying it'll be remade someday too, and, like Vaudeville, it'll be gone, and no one will care.) Not trying to be fatalist here, I'm really an upbeat guy, just saying I think we're going to miss the way movies WERE made pretty soon. Ya know, "you don't know what you got till it's gone" kind of sentiment. I'll miss the days when singers used to sing through natural talent without the Auto-Tuner, so you knew on some level while you listened that they had TRAINED to become that good. There's something to be said for that, I think.
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Discuss.
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Transformers;Transformers 2; Terminator Salvation; Bad Boys 2; Pearl Harbor (actually every damn Bay film); every single one of those accursed 'spoof' movies- Date Movie;Meet the Spartans, etc.-spawn of the devil; Crash (the Haggis one, not the excellent 90's Cronenberg film); Indy 4; Moulin Rouge (any piece of shit by baz Luhrmann); Transformers 2 again - why not? It deserves it.
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I didn't see Harry Potter 6, the first one I missed in the theater, bc I didn't want to give David YAtes a big opening weekend. I hated a LOT of what he did to the 5th movie, Order of the Phoenix, and I didn't want to support him. However, I am disappointed I missed it in theaters. Got too busy to see it. But I am glad I didn't give him any of my money. Doesn't matter though, since he's already directing the last two movies. This guy doesn't care about the details, or about foreshadowing and allusion and reference to the rest of the series. I don't like the guy. Point is, the 3rd Potter movie is still the best. David Yates sucks.
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...a thousand or so films from the 90's to really get down on that one. But I'm sure it would be in my personal top ten of the nineties. Hell, it might be in my personal top ten of all time.
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Always giving me a nickname that starts with "D". Luckily, I haven't been on your bad side =).
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A lot of movies have hidden subtexts or stuff that is there in the conceptual phase of the film that isn't overtly expressed in the finished film. For instance, Brian Dennehy in "First Blood" is actually a Korean war vet who is jealous of Rambo because of all the attention that Vietnam vets are getting and he thinks he should get. I don't think that the idea that he's a korean vet is ever mentioned in the film (stallone explains it in DVD commentary) but to me if they did that it would have been a better movie and Dennehy's rage would have made more sense. I can see if Drag me to hell is metaphorically about anorexia and maybe its something that it is about but I still didn't like it. They could have hinted it was all in her mind but if there were any real themes to it, it was the foreclosure of the old ladies house as a sign of the times of the economy (kharma strikes back when you don't help people and all).
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Yeah dude, it's my way of having good-natured fun with ya. If we were discussing PREDATOR, I'd call you "Dutch Vader" and if we were discussing Megan Fox, I'd call you "Dirty Vader," etc.
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Just starting on my forth Double Dog. Good stuff.I'm still on the fence with Inglorious Basterds. I enjoyed it but I'm the only fuck on here who will say he enjoyed Grindhouse. Tarantino may be a tremendous douche, but I love his shit.I would fuck Anne Hathaway into a coma but she's a Republican cunt.And Star Hump, I think I am the only guy in the Milky Way who defends Poseidon. I found that to be a thoroughly entertaining flick.
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I actually totally agree with you on the treatment of film five! But I think "they" (don't want to give Yates the credit) did a much better job with film six. Unfortunately, a lot of non-hardcore Potter folk (which is to say, people that don't read the books) really love the fifth film. Go figure! The best thing about him doing the last two is that is that there will be two films - so he can't leave shit out! Bastid! And the third film is by far the best, on a thousand different levels. Regardless of what attendance and box office would have you believe. Why they couldn't give Cuaron enough money to come back will always be a mystery to me. Shit, just what he did with birds, freakin' BIRDS!, in that film is better than most of what Yates has done.
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...Shouldn't be working anymore. There are more nightmare stories about his productions than any director I've heard of in recent memory. His latest effort (I think called nailed starring Jessica Biel and Gyllenhaal) had an episode when the actors walked off the set when the crew wasn't being paid. Then the taped shouting matches on Huckabee's and the fist fight with clooney over O. Russell's mistreatment of an extra on "Three Kings". There's a point when all the talent in the world can save a tyrant's career. Also, Speaking of Jessica Biel I want to know the status of her film, "The Abstinence Teacher" supposed to be directed by "Little Miss Sunshine" directors and based on the Tom Perotta book who wrote little children. Thought that movie was due this year or last.
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Starring Steve McQueen. Aside from some obvious and awkward concessions that were the result of a low-budget indie film (yeah, it was independent), such as not enough coverage being shot, making for awkward conversation scenes where you never see one participant's face, and oddly placed ADR, it was a very enjoyable film. Much better than I expected, actually. And, surprisingly, there were a number of very funny, and I mean genuinely funny, moments. And what a wicked song and unorthodox opening credits sequence to boot!
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Sweet bloody Jesus that was getting old. I'm heading for Bad LT this weekend. Can't let this one get away. 3 Cage movies made my top 50 for the 2000 decade, this will probably be the fourth.
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I mean, I can understand anybody not like any film. But one of the worst of the decade? Really? Just the way all the divergent story lines come together is enough to lift it out of that category for me. Plus, I actually really liked the performances of pretty much every actor in that film. The Dillon, Newton, Howard part was great, I thought.
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Vernon Wells is a jealous gay lover who hates Matrix's daughter because she is getting all the attention from her oiled up muscle man daddy. Bennett wants to stick his 'knife' in Arnold (ie. bugger him as punishment), but Arnold asserts his masculinity by destroying Bennett's compound with suspiciously testicular shaped grenades, phallic cannons, and exploding 'projectiles', thus asserting his masculine authority over the S&M 'gimp' Bennett, before 'sodomising' him with a ten foot length of pipe. He also proclaims that he once 'ate' green berets for breakfast (expert deep throat skills). He then returns from his former life of gay debauchery (Bennet was once his colleague) and enters the 'straight' world emblemized by Rae Dawn Chong and 'Chenny'. OK, maybe that subtext isn't so 'hidden' after all.
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Who is Latte Girl, and spare no details!
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As much as Death Proof pisses me off for all its talkiness, it still has some kickass moments.
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It was shot in the area. I was on another production at the time, and everyday we'd hear horror stories from coworkers who were on that flick, stories about not just how much a dick David O Russel was, but how the production was screwed from the getgo, like they never had their SAG contracts in order and the union was coming down on them for not following protocol there either (maybe they hired a lot of non-union workers, I dunno). I don't think they were paying much and that's why they prob turned to non-union guys. It was kinda funny each day wondering if this was the day they were gonna get shutdown. Walkouts were threatened. Actually, I had to stop working on that production, so I dunno whatever happened to Nailed.
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Holy shit you've gotta be smashed at this point! I'm actually quite jealous.
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I just saw it myself, it's really insanely good. I kept thinking to myself while watching Cage "Is this what he's really like?" Off the handle!
As for INGLORIOUS BASTERDS- I liked it a lot better than GRINDHOUSE (GRINDHOUSE felt too... L.A. if that makes any sense). I think BASTERDS wasn't paced well- but as scene sketches, there's a lot of great acting/writing mixed in there. But the sad part is, after seeing it, I asked myself "Would it make a huge difference if it was set during another war?" And the answer was not really. -
The way Cuaron treated the passage of time in his film with the birds and the changing seasons (which fit with the whole latter plot-thread of time travel itself) was very impressive. His, for the first time, felt like a "movie", a cinematic experience. I know lots of non-readers who like the 5th one too, but that's bc its got that whiz-bang ending with the wizard duel. I still haven't seen 6, but I'm still EXTREMELY pissed they cut the last battle out and added in this stupid attack on the Weasley burrow. And from what I've seen of their depiction of the Room of Requirement, it doesn't look nearly as high/tall as it needs to be for the sequence that takes place in the final book. Just sloppy.
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I'm going to have to read that above wee post in fucking segments, lest I spit Yuengling.
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Crash was the second worst film of the decade. That movie was the ultimate in bullshit. It tried like a hooker pretending to be a nun not to be stereotype but in the end was the most ham fisted bullshit ever put on celluloid. And the coincidences in there were so far fetched they should have been a Book in the Old Testament.
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Dec 03, 2009 10:34:26 PM CST
I HOPE CAGE SAVES HIS PENNIES FROM THE BAD LT PROCEEDS
by bringingsexyback
He's apparently worse than a teen with their parents' credit card.
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is because it's a pedantic, liberal guilt 'issue' movie, that makes trite points about racism. I think it was honestly one of the worst best picture winners ever. And all Haggis' films seem to follow this same self-important style.
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It's a preachy, ham-fisted attempt at meaningful cinema. I've had farts that were more nuanced than Haggis' shitpile of a movie. Ah man, why you gotta stir me up like this, Turd????
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..and I really enjoyed it again. I may view it from in a different way with y'alls comments in mind next time. Most movie "coincidences" are contrived. That's why it's suspense of disbelief. Don't know - I just dig that one.
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Talladega Nights? Ali?...... Really?
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Am I bad?
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Yuengling, good choice my friend.
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I can't argue with the MAJOR misstep of leaving out the end battle. Just, lame. However, there is less pandering to the general movie audience and more of the book in it than the 5th film by far. But then, the 6th film is 1/4 of the size, so that's not a major feat! lol However, on the room of requirement - I can let that slide for a couple reasons. One, somebody had enough brains to keep the Neville, Patil twins and Cho in their, so that really helps. Neville in particular. JK could write books about Neville and I'd be stoked. Also, it IS the "room of requirement" - so technically it can be/look like whatever they want or need.
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...no the film. They're about the same. lol
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You've been through the new Bad LT, and hallucinated the hallucinations and everything and all?
One of the biggest movies of the fall. How can it not be? I's always good to see Cage. Who saw this, or Weather Man, coming? He can be transcendent. -
...letters I'm leaving out. I wonder if my KB is dying? Grrr.
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So I have a bottle of Cab and four Double Dogs in me at this point and I'm only slightly flying. Canadian livers rock.BSB, here goes. Latte Girl was someone who I worked with. She was 16 years younger than me, adorable as hell, everything I was (vegetarian, atheist, left handed, liberal, etc) and just the most awesome woman you could ever hope to meet. We spent the summer running away during work hours to fool around and I would meet her late at night for the most unbelievable excursions.This was the woman you wait a million lifetimes for. Amazing does injustice. Christ, I left my wife of 8 years for her. Jesus fuck she was/IS incredible. Holy shit she was just beyond. Mature beyond her years.Long story short, she just had too much Samsonite in her past to make it work with me. But her not being with me right now s the reason I'm wildly drunk off my ass on a work night.
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I think what bothered me was that Haggis' version of human behavior seemed too artificial to me. When the car flipped over and Matt Dillon went to save Thandie Newton, her revulsion at him overshadowed her survival instinct in a way that struck me as silly/unbelievable. Could someone react that way? Sure. But it seemed too forced and convenient in that scene for her to basically say "Fuck it, I'll burn to death before I let a racist cop save me." And yeah, that coincidence of him being there does kind of suck, in retrospect.
But the larger stuff I dislike are the themes being forced down our throats in such a condescending manner. The difference between Haggis' treatise on race and Spike Lee's work is that Spike isn't trying to be cute about it. Racism is played out in very stark, unsentimental ways in Spike's movies. Haggis is a hack, in my opinion. -
...partially trying to just de-National Treasureize himself a bit. I actually dig those films, as completely absurd as they are. But I never really thought of them as typical Cage films, and now a lot of people identify with him in that kind of roll. I sometimes think he does these out of left field things just to remind people that he's the guy from Leaving Las Vegas.
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Dec 03, 2009 10:48:40 PM CST
Death Proof committed the cardinal sin of being boring
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
And it was annoying how Tarantino thought it was the shit and completely uber-cool, when it was really just a big ego fest. The dialogue was mind numbing. Even Basterds had a point, talky though it was. Those scenes in Basterds actually built to some sort of resolution. And the dialogue told much about the characters. Oh, Tarantino captured the way women talk all right (minus the contrived pop culture references)- they talk around, over and through a subject but never get to the point. And that's an accurate portrait of the female psyche all the same, whether its politically correct to say so or not (contrast with the all male cast and dialogue in Reservoir Dogs where little is said but much is implied). But that doesn't neccessarily make for a particularly interesting movie, or at least a movie that purports to be of this type (grindhouse exploitation madness). There should more outrageousness, more gore(why didn't they go for NC-17 if they were going to go truly grindhouse?), more nudity (where was it, such are these prudish times?), and genrally living up to the promise of what all these old B flicks promised but lacked the budget or skill to show. Instead, Tarantino did his job only too well - two set pieces where these old flicks would spend their money, surrounded by 75 minutes of negligible filler and dull chatter.I heard the combined grindhouse experience is better (with the shorter cut); I've never actually seen it in that context.
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The Vampire movies were "a little too real"? I'd hate to go back to the old country, where she's from then. Which surprisingly, is the "new" country... hrmm.
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America's Oldest Beer. If only it could restore the period after your D. D.Vader.
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I should stop talking about films I haven't seen yet. I am glad they've kept Neville in, knowing what we know about the final book. I still won't forgive them for never, EVER giving Dobby a scene outside the 2nd film. The filmmakers act like he's got to be a main character for him to make an appearance, as if audiences won't understand who he is if they give him a short scene telling Harry hey in the halls or something. So now of course, his role in the final movies will just seem to come out of nowhere.
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Dec 03, 2009 10:52:34 PM CST
Star Hump, there's a moment when I realised BAD LT. was genius
by yackbacker
When Nic Cage started channeling Jimmy Stewart. I love the guy and am frustrated by him as well. When he makes artistic choices, he's an unbelievable talent- unpredictable, witty and inventive. When he cashes in to do something beneath him (and no, I ain't talking about the NATIONAL TREASURE movies, that's good entertainment which he elevates) I tend to really want to throw shit at the guy's head. I predict in the next ten years, Cage will do a movie that will put him in a new light, something that will baffle audiences. He pulled that off a few times in the past (ADAPTATION, RAISING ARIZONA) but what he does in the future is hopefully something new.
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Then I'd raise my beer in the air doing my best He-Man impression and wake the neighbors in the process.
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I hated all of them save for the last two. Doesn't matter about directors, all about source material it seems. Potter needs to do more fucking. We need a blue Potter movie.
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Yeah, my grandma was not amused at all by vampires. She could watch a monkey eat a guys guts out as he lay there watching the whole damn thing. But Nosferatu... no dice! She would hate TWILIGHT, that's for certain (on numerous levels).
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I went to college in PA back when you could only get Yueng in PA. We were very fucking aware of our fortune.
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First, I'm not a huge Spike Lee fan. He's missed the entire target for me more times that he's hit the bullseye. No argument that he's not trying to be "cute" about it. It just doesn't always work for me. Second, it wasn't that he was a racist, it was that he molested her. And in that context, yes, I do think someone could act in that manner. Plus, she didn't know the car was going to blow until he yelled at her and told her there was gas leaking around them. Then she chilled the fuck out about. And the over the shoulder look with the slight head shake she gives him while she's walking away is great, great stuff. Also, I really dig the Ludacris arch in that story because I've known people just like him (I live right next to Oakland, CA). People who are the second and third generations of their families to live in nothing but shit and hatred who eventually get a chance to see things from another side. It doesn't fix shit, or make them wrong. It just means they saw a different side, and it changes them. Now, the Cheadle, Phillipe & Tate story - I think that lends perfectly to what you're saying, and I didn't think it held up to the rest of the movie. The Bullock story was basically a throwaway, too.
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Nice euphemism there, HOD. BSB, I've met Latte Girl, and I can attest she was a cool chick. I'm sorry to hear things didn't work out HOD. Real sorry. All I can tell you is that things will get better eventually. They always do. And in the meantime, this drink's for you! (and holy shit, a bottle of Cab too? Dayum).
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Maybe if you have a broken heart. And I feel the same way about Cage in general.
The turning point for me was "Bringing Out the Dead". I saw it as a $3 morning movie (lol) with my Dad and my little brother, and thought, "Damn! This guy can act his ass off."
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Children of Men rocks and Crash is shit. I can now pull the trigger on the shotgun and die happy. Twas a good life gents. Pleased to know you.
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There was no damn nudity anywhere. What the fuck, Tarantino, shots of a girl's bare feet do not exploitative footage make.
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You're in a rough patch. Hang in there, and I hope things go well with the ex. Even if things don't work out with Latte Girl, fret not for Machiatto Girl is looming right around the corner, right old chap?
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Best movie of the year, said I on my blog that year.
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I might have to pull that DVD out. Haven't watched in a couple years.
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Equals FLV Porn.You know this to be true.
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I like them (and agree Cage elevates them), but so does a shitload of middle America, and that's how actors get typecast.
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They ran some story by a new writer who just tore down Children of Men and Cuaron for his awesome long-take shot in the car as the group gets attacked. You know the shot I mean, the one that seemed impossible to pull off. The pretentiousness in that article was suffocating. The way that guy wrote, you'd think filmmakers should just abolish long takes and slo-motion shots all together, bc apparently *editing* that mimics human eye movement is where good cinema happens. It was strike 2 that week for AVClub. The first was when another new writer (who is hiring these pretentious assholes?) shat all over Ghostbusters (it was her first time watching it) and basically told the readers that if you like it, you only like it bc of your nostalgia, bc guess what- ITS A BAD MOVIE YOU MORONS. Fuck those two. AVClub is a good site, but those two writers, despite writing well, have fucking terrible opinions.
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Everyone can gobble my tiny dick. I love Nic Cage. Despite shit like Ghost Rider he's earned a lifetime pass from me.DGDB and I are the only two motherfuckers on the planet who adore The Family Man. Fuck, that's a millennium pass from me. I'm a sappy bastard. Fuck.
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I need to do more readin', less rantin'.
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Seems people either hate it or love it and can't agree to just discuss it. Me, uhh, I don't love it. lol I don't really hate it, either. I just think there's too much praise heaped upon it as being so incredibly great. It's one that when I watch it again in a couple years I may feel totally different about it.
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Two reasons. Raising Arizona. The Wicker Man.
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All that fancy coffee nonsense is for poofters. Black coffee girl will do right by you every single time.
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The idea of more chi-chat in a directors-cut of Death Proof, however, is terrifying. STARZ plays the Grindhouse experience; if you know someone who has it, you should get them to DVR it and watch it, trailers and all. Its fun.
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I actually really liked that long take in the car in COM.
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead in that yellow cheerleader costume, but that's about as far as he took it. Most of these actresses will have no-nudity clauses anyway. To hell with that - cast some porn stars or something, it would fit. I think Tarantino may have been trying to bone Rosario Dawson, so of course he wanted to appear to be the perfect gentleman. Rodriguez was certainly trying to score Rose McGowan - and accomplished that. But for his eyes only, sadly.Actually, the subject of the increasing lack of nudity and sex in American cinema since the 70's is a worrying state of affairs. You could happily show a pair of tits in many an 80's PG comedy.
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And by "fucking", I mean a vision of a shirtless Harry and Hermione entwined together and making out may grace the screen for a scant few seconds to haunt one of the other characters.
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But joke about pulling the trigger on the shut gun really aren't funny, dude. My raging alcoholic of an aunt put the shotgun to her throat and blew it out her back a few years ago. Nobody laughed.
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You don't even realize what's happening behind the scenes the first time you watch it, and the concentration and hard work needed by everyone to pull it off, once you rewatch it and think about it, is fucking impressive.
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I'd say "I should give it another look" but after I watched it on DVD (bought it without having ever seen it, based on the hype) I angrily gave it to my best friend and said "This movie sucked, you'll like it." And he did. That's why we're friends, we disagree constantly and it works out somehow.
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Let me tell you. The HI Character I grew up with that guy.Cage in a bear suit punching people priceless.
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I'm about to call it a night but shit, I don't see a light at the end of this tunnel.Mother dying from cancer, father dying from AIDS, divorcing wife of 8 years and losing soul mate, please, god with 30 arms and 20 legs tell me how this gets any better. Anyway, a bottle of red wine and four 11.5% beers later, I'm done for the night. I've been as professional as I can.Allah bless you all. It's been a joy to be back after such a long absence.
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My family is from Pittsburgh, so every year around the 4th of July we find our way up there. Other relatives live in Greensburg so we'd often shoot past the Monroeville Mall on our way there too. I remember in college when Yuengling made its way down to Florida and we'd drink it on spring break. Then finally, my last year or two, it seemed to have caught on in Chapel Hill, NC. Now I've got a case out in the storage room waiting for me to finish off these Magic Hats.
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And that's one of my favorite parts. It's as the movie gets farther along that I loose interest, and I'm really not sure why. There's been a lot of conversation about it in the talkbacks lately - makes me think I need to netflix it again.
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1.) Two Girls, One Cup2.)Execution video of that American contractor in Iraq3.)'Chocolate Rain'4.)Lady Gaga 'Just Dance' Porn, porn, and more porn. Idiocracy.
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Outstanding. And have you seen The Mega Wicker Man? Youtube it- its hilarious.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:17:46 PM CST
I'll try and catch it sometime down the road DVader
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
I have seen the trailers separately, and felt that they, in many ways, captured the grindhouse 'experience' better than either of the two main features. 'Thanksgiving' is legitimately the best thing Eli Roth has ever done (not saying much, but its better than his 3 terrible movies, and his minimal 'acting' in Basterds). Wonder what happened to Tarantino's trailer, 'Cowgirls in Sweden'? Maybe that's what the nudity count was being saved up for?
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Were the only good thing about that abortion of a movie. Making Kurt go out like a bitch was unforgivable.
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Always. Like you said, it was good to be back here, right? Small things, brother. Tiny things. Grab em and hold on. A'ight. Peace.
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He's punching WOMEN. And the fact that it comes from the director of "In The Company of Men" is so fucking weird and hilarious at the same time. By my count, we see him pull a gun on one woman, punch two, and drop kick another. Lemme repeat that- he fucking DROPKICKS Leelee Sobieski, aka, lil Helen Hunt, across a fucking room. Its outstanding.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:19:40 PM CST
Jaka, did you notice the long take at the end of the movie too?
by dvader
The one during the battle scene? Children of Men, I mean. That's extremely impressive too. You don't even notice the blood being "erased" from the camera lens.
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And that often changes my feelings on a film - so I can see where you're coming from. It's been on cable lately, the only way I've seen it other than netflix, so I re-watched it.
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Keitel is the Chief of the Boat. You have Paxton. Matthew MC from Texas as the reluctant Captain, and an onslaught of massive, depth charged explosions that make this one of the most rocking submarine movies of all-time.
It came out in 2000. I saw it in a gigantic theater, and the speakers were so fucking loud, that when the depth charges went off, you jumped in your seat. KA-FUCKING-BOOOM!!!
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In Carlisle, PA. Being in the very center of the rectangle that is PA was pretty advantageous. I had my long-distance honey at Johns Hopkins (fucking girl ended up two-timing me, breaking my heart- HOD I fucking feel your pain, she was the one that got away for me too). DC was a quick shot away, so was Philly and Pitt. Truly a great location. I miss it a lot...
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That chick from the Friday the 13th remake who got naked and had that awesome sex scene. She 's got some talents.
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That's right he was wailing on broads I forgot that.
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lol - No, I don't remember a long take at the end of COM so much. But I remember the one in the car as because, as you mentioned, all the actors were totally engrossing. That was definitely a memorable scene. I have a vague memory of the blood disappearing, but not a second long take.
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Hang in there. Let the TBs serve as therapy.
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I liked U-571. Top 100? Not sure for me, but definitely better than OBSERVE AND REPORT! (fuuuuuuckin-a Beaks).
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Hang in there buddy. Hang in there.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:26:15 PM CST
The other great thing about CHILDREN OF MEN's camera work:
by yackbacker
No crane shots. Everything was filmed at eye-level. Cuaron is an actor's director.
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As there's nothing anyone can say to make what you've been through feel better. But coming from someone who's lost a parent and many many loved ones over the years, all I can say is that it does get better. A lot better. Have faith in nature balancing things out.
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One of the best parts of the Dawn of the Dead remake.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:33:00 PM CST
Jaka the entire scene where Owen is running through the battle
by dvader
That whole scene is one long take. I haven't seen it in awhile, but I feel like its 9-14 minutes long. It starts when the go up the stairs out into the wasteland/trashed city, and it ends when they make it to the building where the baby is being held by evil black guy from Serenity with the hard to spell name. Watch it again and think of the logistics behind blocking such a shot. It will blow your mind.
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Sad to read.
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...is the shit! And I added COM to the Netflix queue. I've got quite a few things ahead of it - but it's just been popping up in every damn talkback so I feel like I need to familiarize myself with it again. OK, I have a memory of the scene you're talking about, but I just don't remember the lack of edits, which I actually love. I'm so tired of the mtv edit style. Good thing they don't show videos anymore. lol
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You guys are the reason why this site matters anymore.Fuck I love U-571 for all it's inaccuracies. It's the film I watched the day I loaded up the van and moved from Canada to the U.S. No goddamn regrets. Love this country, even more since I became naturalized.And all this Children of Fucking Men is the reason I won't swerve into oncoming traffic tomorrow. That movie is the reason to exist today. All those wonderful one-takes.
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...black guy from Serenity. Can't imagine how he ever gets cast. Must have a kick ass agent! He was excellent in the way overlooked Don Cheadle film "Talk To Me".
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That long take at the end of CoM is the reason that goddamn film is my best of the decade. Dude, I knew you were special the night we drank heffeweisen at the Rockbottom.
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That network is run by either a 12 year old, or a fucking idiot with the mind of a 12 year old. No other business can get away with the type of false advertising that network does with its name. They don't play music. They play shitty reality shows that are OBVIOUSLY scripted. And now they play movies. Fucking movies. On MTV. And not music movies like Almost Famous or Detroit Rock City. Tell me, what the FUCK does V for Vendetta have to do with music? And why, when they played the Star Wars saga, did they misspell my name as VADAR during one of the commercial bumps? Is no one paying attention at this damn network?
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Absolutely Cheadle's best performance. The "night Dr. King was killed" scene brought me to tears. Awesome work.
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but I guess it can't hurt to say some things again. Keep your head up and keep plugging that's all that matters. That and your daughter.
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Dec 03, 2009 11:51:12 PM CST
HOD it was a pleasure to meet you and share a beer that night
by dvader
Children of Men kicks ass, and its long-takes are brilliant. I'm glad we agree on that, because anyone who doesn't agree (at least on the long-takes subject) can not be trusted =).
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So happy you have not only seen it but enjoyed it. I thought it was as great as you did. Great work by both of them.
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GANGS OF NY slides out of the top ten and THE LIVES OF OTHERS is officially in. CHILDREN OF MEN is still #1, long shots and all.
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That one I caught on cable last summer. I knew of Petey Greene but I didn't know this movie was even made.
You know the cool part about that moving sequence w/ Petey talking down Washington from a ledge? The next night, he fucking pisses all over the good he accomplished. And he felt damn good doing it. What a complex man, what an awesome performance. That movie surprised me. -
Cuaron is indeed a great director/filmmaker. Of all the "name" directors to come around in the last decade (since that's the post we're in, technically) I think he gets the least amount of recognition. My complaints about COM are not technical, directorial or have anything to do with acting. As someone who read an INCREDIBLE amount of science fiction (I have over 400 Star Trek books alone, and an unknown number or other books and sci-fi related comic books - thousands, I'm sure) I just didn't find the story to be as mind blowing as most people seem to think it is. I was actually kind of underwhelmed by it, to be honest. That's my only complaint, and that's just my opinion. All aspects of it are very solid, otherwise.
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It has to be CoM. Blew my socks off.
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THERE WILL BE BLOOD. I had a hard time trying to figure out which I liked better- TWBB or NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. I still go back and forth a little, but in the end, TWBB seems the more solid picture. But then I say "Without Daniel Day Lewis, what is there to this movie?" Great cinematography, a chilling story... but... damn, DDL really fucking carried that movie. But the guy is so good, he could have upstaged Marlon Brando in THE GODFATHER if they were contemporaries.
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Fellowship at ONE, then Children of Men at Two. I lived thru the disappointment of Bakshi's Fellowship, so when Jackson and Co. turned in their version -- Shee-it. It opened with a Cate Blanchett/Isildur/Sauron sequence. And I didn't even know who Cate Blanchett was at the time! Yeah, Fellowship at One.
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For Armored or Brothers? Jeebus Cristo this site is so fucking behind. Its all about "Up in the Air" with these fuckers. If they don't get an invite to a screening, they won't run any reviews for the movie it seems.
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I feel the same way about CoM. What a movie. It blew my socks off in such a manner that aliens in Andromeda are wondering what a pair of plaid socks are doing on their dog hots roasting on the grill on the sixth of July.
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Huge Cheadle fan, and I thought the evil black guy in Serenity was great but I at the time that was the only thing I'd seen him in. So I'm in Blockbuster waiting for a pizza to cook at the place across the street one night and I see 'Talk To Me' in the used section for $3. That's right, THREE DOLLARS! For a Don Cheadle movie! I was like, "whaaaaaat?!" Even if it turned out to be a BAD Don Cheadle movie, it was still a Don Cheadle movie for three dollars. Ya know? Turns out it's a great movie, filled with great performances about a subject that I knew NOTHING about. In fact, I would EASILY place it in my top 100 of the last decade.
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I can see why that goes down as your 2, YB. Damn, that'd make a fine No. 1.
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that makes it a great contender for Best Movie of the Decade, and it happens early on in the movie.
Clive "SleepyHead (lol)" Owen goes in for his morning coffee, fucks with the line and gets to the counter, gets his coffee, steps outside on the street,
and the entire coffee shop blows up right next to him!
Terrorism in a capsule, right there. The shot is so terrifying, so fucking realistic, that it makes me shake every time I see it.
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First, all of the LOTR trilogy would be in my top 100 of the decade. Easily in the top 20, actually. And probably my top ten. Partly because, as mentioned, previous attempts failed miserably. But also because, as a gigantic Tolkien nerd, I just never expected it to happen. Not ever. Certainly not live action. With that in mind I never got my expectations up too high, so I was greatly rewarded with first watching the films in the theater and then again in their extended versions.
There Will Be Blood is great on many levels and would also be in my top, err, I don't know, 20-25. I love how relevant it's themes are and how badly a lot of people (critics included) completely missed them. I also love that it's unapologetically ugly. It gets major props for that from me. There are no, "hey look at this beautiful movie I made" shots in that entire damn film.No Country For Old Men - As much as I love 99% of that film I hate the other 1% - the ending. I don't know, it just doesn't work for me. It's cheese. However, I love so much that they made the movie with no score. Just love it! Who else would be allowed to do that? And how much do you think the studio was freaking out about it? I also love the work Jones, Bardem and Brolin. Great stuff. -
Dec 04, 2009 12:21:04 AM CST
I saw Talk To Me while my mom was in surgery for cancer
by hawaiian organ donor
And the next day I received a warning from Time Warner about sharing that movie over the internets.The powerhouse duo of Cheadle and Ejiofor deserves ultimate respect. And it's just a great fucking movie to boot.
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That whole sequence is perfect. The mundane act of getting a morning coffee- the "sleepiness" of it is very jarring.
I also thought the birth scene was tremendous- another long shot from when they get into the refugee camp up until the baby coming out. Jesus, I have to watch that movie again. #1 of the decade, absolutely. -
Apparently I'm the only one that it didn't make go weak in the knees. It's pretty good in my opinion but not great. Different strokes I guess.
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The movie is a Western to me- sure it's post-modern and atypical, but the whole thing is lyrical in its treatment of biblical mythology. Tommy Lee Jones' character is, by implication of his dream about his father, God's son. What he describes, seeing his father ahead of him on a horse, riding away, is that man is expelled from Paradise by his sins. Moss is Adam, his wife is Eve, and they succumb to Anton Chigurh's "temptation"- the Devil's bargain as symbolized by the flipping of a coin (an amoral barometer of one's fate). I found the ending to be poetic- look at the mess man has made of this world. God has abandoned us- He leaves us to sort through the mess. I'm not a religious person at all, but the themes are very compelling to me nonetheless.
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They don't really have fuck all in common, but they'd all be in my top 100 (that's 100! lol) somewhere. So go ahead and rip me apart now. lol I JUST saw the Wrestler and it was SO different from what I was expecting. So small, intimate and painful. I'd heard it was more of a return to Aranofsky's Requiem style after the clusterfuck The Fountain (sorry, but I hate that movie soooo much!). NOTHING could be further from the truth. It's as different as from Requiem as The Fountain was, and I love it. Movies that don't wrap everything up all happy with a bow at the end tend to leave me very satisfied. The Wrestler did that for me. Keeping in mind that I'm a comic book GEEEEEEEK! who owned every Frank Miller book LOOOOONG before he ever thought about getting involved with movies, I love both Sin City and 300. I think he and Rodriguez did a great job. It's gritty, it's noir, it's innovative and it IS freakin' Sin City, but on film. There's no great message or themes going on here. It's just hard core guy cinema and I loved it. lol 300, I think some people tried to take that movie WAY too seriously. It's just a hard core, ass kicking sword fighting fantasy film. Again, maybe not for everyone, and it has it's weak spots. But in general I dig that one too - even the slow-motion. lol
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I love that so many of you think of it as the best of the decade. Jesus that's heartwarming. My belief in humanity has been renewed. I'll hold off the total fucking destruction for a few years.
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Dec 04, 2009 12:34:14 AM CST
And as for TWBB, a reviweer posited one theory that I love
by yackbacker
That Plainview's final act of rejecting his adopted son was his one act of love in the movie. He saw himself as a poisonous element in his son's life. His son wanted to be free of his father, but either didn't realize it or loved Plainview too much to cut the chord. So, Plainview did the one thing that he knew would make his son happy again- rejecting him. Whether you buy into that interpretation or not is completely an individual choice, but when I watch that scene, the more vicious he becomes, the more I see the generosity of that act.
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Tommy Lee was thinking he'd never live up to his dad's ideal. Because he was now old and sees the world as an old man does- as being full of more evil than when he was younger. But in reality, its the same as it ever was. But, he sees his dad, younger than he is now, as being the stronger one, the one who's able to go ahead into the darkness bravely. Hence the title, its him realizing the world is different but not bc things have changed, but bc he has changed.
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I loved the fuck out of Sin City. Only a cro-magnon motherfucker couldn't appreciate Marv. That was just an ultimate sub-story.
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Oh, the baby being born, then being hid the very morning after, then being discovered by the soldier...
Long sequences, long shots of terrible tension.
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Oh, the baby being born, then being hid the very morning after, then being discovered by the soldier...
Long sequences, long shots of terrible tension.
I recall my Dad saying he hated CoM, and I don't blame him. He's 70 and they're not used to this shit, these ha It's a fucking grueling movie, but God is it worth it. -
TALK TO ME. Yet all 3 of us love the movie. That renews my faith in humanity too. Cheadle = professional.
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What the fuck, man.
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I think it holds water. I want to read the book, maybe there's something there that fleshes this out more. Good ideas, man.
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And you dig Talk To Me. Nice!
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I never thought I'd be talking about TALK TO ME with anyone, this is a fucking awesome night.
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I loved that there was a subtle light that seemed to come into the room from the window and that all the animals started howling as the child was born. Epic and mythic.
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I get why some people couldn't embrace it. I happen to love the movie, more so than THE WRESTLER, which I do admire a great deal as well. I can't argue on THE FOUNTAIN's behalf- it's a hard movie to like. I didn't expect to like it either, but I was blown away by it.
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OK, I dig what all of you are saying. Parts of it will even change the way I view the film in the future. But I just don't like the EXECUTION of the ending. It just doesn't feel right to me, Tommy sitting there in a half dream like state telling that story and then, blam, cut to black. I know there are other people who feel the same way I do, but I also realize we're the minority. And keep in mind that I love the film. But every damn time I watch it, which is probably up around 10 times now as I'll always leave it on if it's on a movie channel, I get the same annoyance at the end. Even though I KNOW that's what's going to happen. But lets keep in mind it's the Coen Brothers - I sure it was a VERY conscious decision. Much like not having a score.
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The sound design is fucking amazing- boots on gravel, Chigurh's air-gun... that movie is an example of technique by the Coen Bros.
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I need my Michael Cain fix anyways. What a decade for that dude, right? Comeback performer of the decade, I say.
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I never noticed that -- the light part, etc. as the baby is born in CoM. I'll definetly watch again. I'm going to order the DVD for myself for Xmas for fuck's sake.
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I think Beaks went off the mark here. It wasn't film that regressed; it was CULTURE. Culture that's largely been induced by a ruthless neo-con reign of chief dumbass G.W. Bush and co. : one that means to purge all instincts of freedom, and intellectuality, by keeping everyone in line, to an archaic, Cro-Magnon, patriarchal status-quo. Which could only cause voidance or nihilist misery to lots of things. And despite all that, more than any other medium, film has proved to be the most resolute front against this authoritarian enroachment - the Michael Moore documentaries, and the 'truth-to-power' stuff it both inadvertently and advertently inspired - if not the most critical shield or defense. Such is what allowed the medium to sternly gestate and transmorgify within the safe haven it provides, into producing new forms and new analysis from the most unlikeliest of sources. PT Anderson grows out of sexual concerns to attack the impunity of oil barons in the early 1900s. Even Ronald Emmerich got to admit that America cannot save the world after all, and his work, in my opinion, evolved accordingly ( if only at a point ). Not one superhero movie advocated the destruction, or undermining, of a system they're suppose to just prance around, exalting. This allowed the integration and recognition of new methods, new approaches, new mechanics of storytelling they weren't previously allowed to recognize and contemplate amid the false euphoria of Clinton-era stability, enough to ditch the goddamned neon for good. What results is various rethinking of cinema as we know it, in ways that influence thinking in years to come. This ain't regression, much as that snobbish liberal son of a bitch Bill Maher would when he whined about us finding depth in 'Batman'. This ain't a regression for all of cinema, since this is becoming increasingly widespread. This is an evolution. A move that may be towards paths previously unexpected, in modalities not taken into consideration, and that threatens to topple certain...sacred cows. ( Probably why the geriatrics at Oscars held on to the fricking READER in the face of the Batman sigil that hovers above them. They've got to hold on to their 'little Nazi flick' that hypocritically makes them relevant, feeding off very real-life tragedies and shit. Anyways.Even as, admittedly, there are not much agile confrontational works now as they were in the '80s. The rebellion in this era is quaint and chaste, not lived. There's lot of shame and hesitation and apologia. Some even APOLOGIZE for the shit current set-up, in ways that would make patriotic jingoism ITSELF balk, the way we remember it with the John McTiernan stuff. But I feel it's changing. It's a grand massive exodus away from the art film mode as the sole repository of high-minded contemplations and what not, and studying of human condition, as it has proven wanting and inadequate in this very important juncture of history. Or at least it seems like it. P.S. Also unfair to Steven Spielberg. The man produced some of his most dark, provocative, edgy and challenging works in this decade, and yes, that includes 'War of the Worlds'2005.
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Dec 04, 2009 12:53:52 AM CST
How the sweet merciful crap couldn't anyone like Tak To Me
by hawaiian organ donor
What an exceptional movie.You know what I watched right afterwards? The Hoax. Fuck Gere and Molina were golden. Jesus fucking Chirst, if not being in the waiting room of the OR, that would've been a magical movie watching day.
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THE QUIET AMERICAN (professional movie), BATMAN BEGINS, THE PRESTIGE, THE DARK KNIGHT, HARRY BROWN. This guy played Joe Stalin in a TV movie in the 90s. He was also a villain in a Steven Seagal movie (a bad one). This guy pieced himself back together in a big way.
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in the theater. I was visibly pissed in the theater at the end. I walked out mumbling to myself. "Dream talk? Who ends a movie with dream talk? Blek."
But you know what? It's been on cable here time and time again. I've seen it in scenes, and I've seen it from beginning to end, and it's absolutely excellent. That sequence where Brolin is chased from his hotel and a gun battle breaks out in a deserted Texas street is so harrowing and realistic that it made my skin crawl. -
I haven't seen it, and based on your impeccable taste, I am now going to rectify that mistake.
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The Hoax - YES! I don't know why Gere is so hated on. Probably all the romantic lead crap he does. But the man has chops and his career is filled with consistently good to great films, regardless of genre. I thought The Hoax was excellent. I'll say for the 172nd time - Bail and Caine in The Dark Knight is some of the most natural acting ever caught on celluloid. They aren't even the big eye-popping scenes. But they are just so naturalistic that I forget I'm watching Michael Freakin' Caine and a guy playing Batman! Amazing work. Especially the scene where he tells the story about how some people just want to watch the world burn, or something to that affect.
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I was pleasantly surprised by that movie I wasn't expecting much from it but it exceeded my admittedly low expectations with that interesting little flick.
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I'm off to bed, throwing on CoM and gonna see how long I last. HOD, take care man. And the rest of you jackals- thanks for your excellent company.
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The movie hit me the same way. The movie ends with a totally banal conversation between the ex-Lawman and his wife. He describes his dream. It's convoluted and goofy and involves his Daddy. Whatever (to her). His wife doesn't bat an eye. She has to go to work, and she remarks to her husband that it must be nice to be retired! Go horseback riding, if you want. Whatever, I still have to go to work!
And that's the final point. Everything is banal. You missed the boat. Time has moved on. Evil is relentless and can never be stopped, and you're an old Sheriff, so forget about it. You've been left behind. Now go ride a horse. -
The amount of tension they build in that film without fast edits, special effects and a score is mind blowing. All the tricks that directors normally use are absent. Yet whenever they want it, the tension is there. The coin flip with the old man in the gas station, the scene with Brolin in the room and Bardem in the hall, the shoot out you mentioned and the segment when Brolin is being chased and shot at into the river and the scene with Bardem and Harrelson. Just great, great movie tension.
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one of the greats
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Black Book - Verhoeven back on form after sliding off the map with Hollow Man. Wish he'd get another out soon. The only film of the 00's to feature a woman dying her pubes, and then getting drenched in dung bare naked. Probably.The Man Who Wasn't There - most overlooked Coen Bros. movie of this decade.The Pledge - Jack Nicholson doing some you, know, actual acting for once (instead of just playing himself); reminds me of his 70's work.A History of Violence - I thought Eastern Promises was even stronger, but Viggo and Cronenberg are a great collaborative team. Plus Ed Haris being a bad ass.
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...at the same time. Weird, maaaaan! We agree completely on the end. Great film, the end is just weak sauce and I'll not be convinced otherwise.
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Not bloated or IMAX, even I mean, stop the navel-gazing, and engage the bigger menace. Yeah, that's the way.To not say that they should be less intimate. But at least FRICKIN' MEAN SOMETHING ! Most films have become a bit too personalistic. It just becomes a matter of 'point-click' sensations, the viewer, and the interface, holed up in an operant box, and nothing more. Not much relating to the larger narrative it should all correspond to, that breathes it sophistication and sense, unto which one would and should respond as a PLAYER - albeit universal-particularist, which is good. Both art film and recent Hollywood blockbuster ( i.e. Transformers 2 et al. which are a bunch of strung-up sequence and effects with little creative and emotional investment from the makers, and no thread or other ( not even necessarily linear ) with which to make sense of them ). You can see how this all leads to porn ( disaster porn, torture porn, action porn, real porn ) Is reason why this decade seemed so damned small for the most part,in its shown impulses, in its motivations, the space of context which it allows, its fetus recoil. To not say give up all the lessons learned. But still.
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a wee typo there. Enjoy that Coen Bros madness. Relay to us any insights you may get from tonight's look-see.
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If you come back good to see you pally.
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Nobody listens to me. Will Smith as The Reason.
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Yes, yes and yes! All three would make my top 100 of the decade. The Pledge would be pretty far down there, as I don't remember it being all that great other than Jack. However....
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Is Latte Girl still an option down the road when she's cleaned up her baggage or is it what it is.
Inglourious Basterds would definitely have to be in my top 10, if not top 5. I was glued to the edge of my seat the entire movie. The opening chapter is so chilling, so pitch perfect. I actually haven't seen it again, and I'm worried that now that I know what happens it won't be as good.
I definitely would have to put Children of Fucking Men in the Top 5. So that makes it (not in order) There Will Be Blood, The Dark Knight, Inglourious Basterds, Children of Men so far. Prestige would be in the top ten, as would No Country for Old Men and The Departed. OldBoy, and Battle Royale possibly.
Battle Royale is a possibly because the story is perfect, but the pacing is a little off. I haven't seen it in years too, so I'll have to show that one to my gf so I can see it again too. -
with you guys.
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I found to be a much better all around effort by Sean Penn, the director. It would probably be somewhere up there in the fifties. I'm hoping he directs more. Milk, maaaan, that film was just way better than I expected. The deserved the Oscar for that one. Speed Racer.... DAMN IT! if that film hasn't grown on me immensely! I would certainly put it in my own personal top 100 WAY before I'd include Bring It On. And those films do connect if you think about it...
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Let me put that one on the list. Cronenberg! Fuck me, how the memory slips...
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I also liked About Schmidt. Even though naked Kathy Bates almost made me vomit.
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Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Solaris and Oceans 11 would all make my top 100 of the decade. Maybe Oceans 12 and 13 too, depending on what else I could think of at the time. And I haven't seen Che, The Girlfriend Experience or The Informant yet.
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I may sound crazy to the haters for saying it, but it's so pitch perfect in the characters and the interactions and the light-hamminess of it all.
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...I'm going to go pick one of the great films we've been discussing and crash out. Great talkback folks! It reminds me of why I first fell in love with this site. A genuine no-holds-barred knowledge of and love for film. Lateski!
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Shouldn't you wait till the actual decade is over? Just saying..
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...I'll never make a list, but if we talk about films enough over the four parts of this series I'm sure I'll come up with 100 from the decade that I like, or love. And that's saying something! I don't love Speed Racer THAT much! lol But I'll admit that my hatred for it is completely gone. Part of that has to do with loving Emile in Into The Wild, though. DVader, remind me to get back into The Fountain if you return to this thread. A'ight. Out.
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Upper reaches of the list, but it had heart. Better than bring it on and tallageda nights, that's for damn sure!
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It was pretty great! Good plot, and nice action. It really moved along. Ewan McGregor was great.
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...how many of the films we've discussed will be in his top 75? Heh. : )
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Che the first half is really fucking awesome. The second half is basically the first half, but slightly more depressing. I understand that it must be historically accurate, but I would probably never watch it again. The first half is definitely something to watch over and over again.
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It's the anti-funny. The youngest son got some chuckles though with the delivery of his lines, but thats about it. Social commentary my ass.
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Its just that there was SO much crap that over powered the good stuff that somethings get lost. Granted there were some awful years, like 03. But I think its the fact that god awful crap went on to make ridiculous amounts money. Shit like Alvin and The Chipmunks, Handcock, Shreks, Pirates, Sandler films, Bruce Almighty, Bay film and so forth and so on. So the best movies were not the most successful financially which is different then the 70s-90s. So of course everyone's going to just remember the money makers. If anything I think this decade is really the beginning of the end of great films. But some gems will always get through.
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We'll have to get back to that one at some point.
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Especially since I love long films. But the lack of coherent, descriptive reviews of the film had already led me to believe that it was probably difficult to get through and/or take in at one time. I still want to check it out, though.
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How sad that is to read. You're right, Series 7. Think about 1939 alone, or the 70s as a decade, the second golden age.
Some of your terms made me laugh. "The Sandler Films." Good God, so true. The Sandler movies were indicative of the entire decade. They made billions around the world. And they were totally fucking stupid. -
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Dec 04, 2009 2:06:28 AM CST
Very interesting TB, particularly when people comment on worst m
by miyamoto_musashi
You can see with favourite movies, there are general favourites (LOTR) and then there are movies that you connected with and other didn't at all or very mixed (i.e. one that I love is Lost in Translation and that fits into that category).
But what I find really interesting is when people talk about their worst movies of the decade, I feel that people seem to be more emotive and subjective here than they are with their favourites.
You see movies named likes Transformers 2 or Indiana Jones popping up, because these are two movies that people felt passion for, but really they are just average or disappointing, perhaps very disappointing. You think about the movies you had hopes for or had a vested interested in, you don't tend to focus on some of the more appalingly made movies (like Battlefield Earth or Master of Disguise or Ballistic: Ecks v Sever) -
Don't lump it in with all the other animated shite that we got this decade. It's better than some Pixar movies, as great as they are.
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Lump away.
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Lump away.
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Am guessing he will be too lazy to do top 100, but at least 10 would be good. Any thoughts on what Harry or Beaks number one will be ?
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Dec 04, 2009 2:21:32 AM CST
I just made a list of the movies I rated highest in the 2000s
by iamnicksaicnsn
and they already rock Beaks' list. Not counting the ones he's seen that I haven't. But come on Beaks!
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Best Movie of 2009
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You deluded fuckspoon, borderline Fascist, Randian twatbox.
I'm convinced that after the Apocalypse there's just going to be cockroaches and you and Coughdrop trying to work out how to breed with each other, and why if homosexuality is so wrong does ass play make you feel so right. -
he'll either go ridiculously pretentious (like when he watched Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance without subtitles and proclaimed it to be genius) or it will be full of utter shit like Twilight and Spiderman 3
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would include every movie that came out between 1999 and 2010.
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I probably wouldn't even put Miami Vice in my top 150.
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Has to go on the 100. Doctor Octopus. The secret lab on the docks, the mad science, the great Spidey moments you thought you'd never see - skyscraper battles, glass shattering ambushes, web-slinging escapes and train-stopping power.
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you know Harry well
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I don't know why, but I couldn't get involved in that film. Even the extended tracking shots didn't work for me; some find them brilliant, I just find them artificial and obvious.
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That trailer was
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I love it.
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Mr Beaks was a Talkbacker. That's how he started contributing to Ain't It Cool. And he wrote his way into the fabric of the site. That's all. That's what Harry and I always wanted Talkback to be. And that's what makes this talkback turning into a rambling discourse on Talkbackers is (A) to be expected and (B) completely appropriate. Great list so far, Beaks, even if you are already obviously insane.
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The initial grab was "I'm doing 100 movies." I liked that a lot - 100, not 25, or even 10! Just imagine the blather the next 25 will generate.
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Man, without you, Quint is the only decent reviewer on this site.
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"Best thing about this talkback"
Mori, dont know if you'd agree but it's a sentiment that's been made a lot lately that talkback is the 'best thing about this site'.
If Harry always wanted the site to 'recruit' contributors from the talkback why hasn't he actioned it? Easy to forget early mission statements I know, but sometimes those cool ideas you have when you're starting out are the ones you should really cling on to and make happen.
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It's easy, and you get movie stuff dropped right into your e-mail every day or so. Reviews, links and musings. Movie info galore. You'll love it.
No kidding. Subscribe. The Best of Both Worlds (AICN + Moriarty)
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Fairly simple, actually:The writers of this website(excluding Vern and Massawyrm)are the towelboys in an Oriental massage parlor.The movies discussed are the Oriental masseuses.The talkbackers are the patrons of the Oriental massage parlor.As absurd as that may sound, if you let it sink in for a little while, it makes better sense.Obviously, it wasn't always this way... but that's what it's become.
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...Is Cobra--kai, HOD, the CoCers, the Professionals & a bag of white vader.
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Is the presence of more Pedalbackers.
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Conti, glad to hear you're doing your bit for east west relations. Sorry you didnt get any glasnost tonight. Try more vodka next time?
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though it's not final, more so far.
28 Days Later
A History of Violence
A Scanner Darkly
Almost Famous
Amelie
American Psycho
Babel
Bad Santa
Batman Begins
Battle Royale
Beer Fest
Billy Elliot
Blow
Boiler Room
Bowling for Columbine/Fahrenheit 911/Sicko/Capitalism (Ok, i'm a liberal, so sue me)
Capote
Casino Royale
Charlie Wilson's War
Che Part 1
Children of Men
Cinderella Man
Clerks II
Closer
Collateral
Constant Gardner, The
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Darjeeling Limited, The
Dark Knight, The
Déjà Vu
Departed, The
Descent, The
Devil's' Rejects, The
District 9
Donnie Darko
Equilibrium
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Nemo
Frequency
Frost/Nixon
Gladiator
Gran Torino
Grindhouse
High Fidelity
Hot Fuzz
I Love You, Man
Incredibles, The
Inglourious Basterds
Inside Man
Insomnia
In The Valley of Elah
Iron Man
Jackass (1&2)
Kill Bill
King of Kong, The
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Last King of Scotland, The
Last Samurai, The
Lord of the Rings
Lord of War
Lost In Translation
Man Who Wasn't There, The
Manchurian Candidate, The
Matador, The
Match Point
Memento
Minority Report
Monsters Inc
No Country for Old Men
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Oldboy
Panic Room
Prestige, The
Ratatouille
Red Dragon
Requiem For A Dream
Rescue Dawn
Royal Tennenbaums, The
Shaun of the Dead
Sin City
Speed Racer
Spider-Man 2
Star Trek
Super Size Me
Super Troopers
Sunshine
Taken
Thank You For Smoking
There Will Be Blood
Traffic
Training Day
Unbreakable
Up
V For Vendetta
Walk The Line
Wall-E
Watchmen, The
Wrestler, The
Xmen 2
Zodiac
Zombieland
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not "more so far." Jeez I'm tired. And I'm not even sure that's my final list, and probably won't be once I catch up on other flicks I haven't seen yet. Plus I cheated pretty heavily with Moore's stuff.
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I finally saw Transformers 2 through an also deviously "acquired" copy, and the sound and image quality was quite poor, and frankly, the movie was all the better for that. I noticed that if you watch Bay's movies in bad pirated copies, it make the movies more watchable... well, depending of your definition of watchable is a pretty liberal one. and yes, rest assured, my friend, i finally saw a movie that is worst then STINO, though to no suprise of mine. In fact, i wished i had seen STINO from a bad sound/image "acquired" copy, my opinion of it might not be as negative. I leanred that all bad movies get more watchable through bad "acquired" copies. They are still horrible cinematic piece of shits, but at least the bad quality distracts a bit from the awfulness.I bet Mr Beaks will put both transformers movies high up in his list. This guy used to be AICN's most dedicated Bay ass kisser... until the arrival of the Mighty Jar Jar Abrams.
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In no particular order and I am sure an incomplete list but just a few....
The PrestigeBlack Hawk DownUnited 93Revenge Of The SithThe Bourne IdentityFellowship Of The RingFinding NemoSpider ManThe IncrediblesTroyI, RobotSky CaptainBatman BeginsIron ManThe DepartedCasino RoyaleI Am LegendUpThat's some but not all, it's early and I am not fully awake yet so I am sure there will be more. -
didn't get a fair shake. Granted, Asimov fans must have gone nuclear, but wow, a thrilling movie.
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Orcus is indead the weary traveller these days. Howya doin'?
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In regards to your ID problem, is it that you cannot login or that you can log in but not post? Have you tried resetting your password? You might want to post on the contact page whose link is above
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Thanks, I know a lot of people don't care for Will Smith and his "oh hell no" schtick, and that's fine, but I really felt that in this movie he toned it down a little. it's still there, it's his thing, but it was a bit less in this movie, and even less in I Am Legend. I know Asimov purists probably hate it, but I thought it was well done. Sonny was a great character. That whole scene with him winking at Will is just awesome.
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The most crass and obnoxious product placement I've ever seen: "Hey Spoon, Nice Shoes"
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Really? I mean, I think you can argue I, Robot. Maybe. But Sky Captain?
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I liked it. Sue me. I am not trying to make a case for it. I am not trying to say it was a cinematic achievemnt of the highest level, all I am saying is I liked it. Period. No need to expalin further. I am sure there are movies you could list that I would question, but it boils down to personal choice. I don't deny that some of the movies I like may not be the greatest, but I enjoyed them and what others think really does not matter to me. If you think a movie sucked, that's fine, but if I liked it you are not gonna convince me to not like it.
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HAHAHA I WIN! 1 to nothing. I have yet to see Transformers 2. I held out the longest. Its just like that Seinfeld episode, the wack off or something like that. NOW PAY UP SUCKERFOOL!
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Orcus hasn't seen it either
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It's the same damned movie.
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Until now.
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You know where we are. Stop by some time. We request your Top 10 Best Aught's Movies list. That Russian chick wouldn't happen to be Ronnie Wood's 20 year old girlfriend that he just got arrested for beating up, would it?
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I guess you can just add your self to a bet that was made between two other people? Do you just wonder up to poker tables with a royal flush in your hand and go, "A A A, I WIN".
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If only I could find a great DVD copy.
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It says the account D.Vader has not been activated or has been blocked.
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Glad to know I am not the only one who enjoyed Sky Captain. No apologies for liking it, it was a blast and yep, I saw it in the theater.
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Are we here, or at Beaks Pt. 2?
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Wow, you are mental after all! You think that anyone who disagrees with your liberal views and is bold enough to say so is a "fascist." Did you recently learn this word? I hate to break it to you, but there are plenty of people who don't suck Obama's cock. Are they all "fascists" too? Don't tell me -- you are going to make another failed attempt to be "witty" and try to insult me again? In other news, several members of the Obama administration and the media have come down with genital warts. Jarv...don't you need to go and check for open sores in your mouth, buddy? =)
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Good stuff
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...or else, there will be hell to pay in the TB.
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Oh man, you liked I, Robot?? Oh man!! Me, i can't even express in words the fucking loath and fury i have on that retarded Big Willy Ego-Boating piece of shit of a movie. Fuck, man, how i fucking hate it! Truly, that movie has all the fingertips of oscar winner Akiva goldsman all over it. And i'm not even comenting on it as a total bastardization and pissing on the work of Isaac Asimov. no, i was just talking of it merely as a movie on it's own. As an adaptation of Asimov's literary work, it's beyond undescriable! It's.. it's... fuck, man! That movie was the STINO of 2004.Inicially, I, robot In Name Only was supposed to be a total original work called Hardwired. I even saw online pre-production previews with that name on it. It should had sayed that way. At least the movie could had been taken on it's own, good or bad the results might be. but then, this idiots who made it decided to stamp the name of Asimov on it so they could use the robotic laws, which in the end is such a marginal and insignificant element of the story that even begs the question why they even fucking bothered. Certainly the assclowns who made the fucking movie have no fucking concept whatsoever of logic, which is expected given the end result. IRINO made me question myself if my first good opinion of Alex Proyas was misguided.
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Drag Me To Hell on a "best of" list at all? Doesnt make much sense to me
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...your true colors run from the chickenshit yellow stripe down your back and continue with the brown stripe in your shorts. The surgical use of your tongue searching for pustules in caprines' shpincter's should be included in medical journals. ALINO is a fucking ass, ass fucking ass. Exactly when did your estrangement from Abrams nutsack begin, huh ALINO you useless sack of skin and bones. ALINO ALINO ALINO ALINO.
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...because of Julia Styles' performance. Sean Patrick Thomas was also very good.IMHO it was the real trigger for the rebirth of the dance movie.
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...it's because I saw the movie through the lens of Moriarty's glowing script review.
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I think that there has NEVER been a legitimate adaptation of any of Asimov's works. Of course, the same is true of Alexander Dumas' THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. For some reason, the "powers that be" decide to turn that marvelous, tragically epic story into a silly "Zorro" film. I suppose that Hollywood doesn't have much faith in the marketability of films that are deeper than "Zorro."
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Oliver Stone's biggest film contribution of the decade is --insert drum roll: his "Oliver Stone Presents" backing of the DVD for BANG RAJAN: The Legend of the Villiage Warriors.Set in 1765, it's based on the true story of Siamese warriors and their fight against the Burmese empire. Good movie IMHO.
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I remember it had really blurry effects.
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...look really cool and have big sets, and look retro and modern at the same time, and use soft focus a lot... but I can't remember the story it told at all.
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I believe.
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...they just stopped at like, eight feet of height, or something. That's how I remember it, anyway. I think Sky Captain had SOME sets too - just very minimal. I mean, I have clear memory of them interacting with physical sets. It's not just actors walking around.
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... Around" of 'O3 would ever be surpassed, but congratulations boys and girls! This TB has officially been declared the biggest circle-jerk in web history. Hoo Rah!
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With a rare exeptions from some rare filmmakers, like Christopher Nolan, the truth is Hollywood doesn't have faith on the very audiences that pays to watch their movies. That's their true lack of faith.
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...with every single Avatar thread. Because this has been one fine film geek discussion right here. Yes it has.
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but Lucas spends all that money to fly out to fucking Tunisa to shoot Luke's home scenes. That's balsy.
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... Talk-backers"? Give me a break. That's what I was referring to. This thing has been going on for days. Read up near the beginning.
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I respect your opinion (although it's odd that you're still posting on the thread, and trying to prove that it's a bad thing somehow, but I still respect your opinion). I have no problem with it. Particularly after it became a more civil discussion, vs bashing whoever doesn't agree with you. There are some very knowledgeable film folk, not to mention some generally great minds, who post on these talkbacks. When the bs can be weeded out there are great discussions to be had and good info to absorb. Through this post I learned of some films I need to check out and will definitely look at some films I've already seen in a different light. In my book, that's nothing but cool. But then I'm just over trying to prove anything on teh internets in general. I know how big my cock is and I don't care what anybody else has to say about it.
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Sorry dude, I liked it, I know now that's 2 movies I like that you hate. I never read the original story and even if I had I am sure I would have liked the movie anyways.Like I said, I know a lot of people shit on Will Smith and that's fine, you pretty much either love him or hate him, there's not much in between. Here is a question, if an actor you liked was playing Smith's part, would you have liked the movie any better?Aside from that, I have not seen your opinion of Sky Captain, I am interested to hear what you thought of it, wondering if my prediction is correct....
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...I sometimes lack that gene. : )
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Why should it be on this list again? well then again it is the top 2000s so nevermind.
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I wouldn't had liked IRINO any more if the part had been played by a real actor, be him white, black, asian, martian, whatever. If i had 5 bucks for every bad movie that has actors i like in the lead, i would be a rich man and bought a Bentle Continental GT.There is no original "I, Robot" story. "I, Robot" is a collection of short stories all dealing with the relationship between humans and robots. But far more importantly, every story in I, Robot is about the consequences in robot behavior when they try to aply their 3 laws of robots in unexpected situations and their unpredictable bahavior, and how humans investigate the event and deduce the truth behind it. And all told in a very entertaining, mystery story kind of way. "I, Robot"'s greatness is that Asimov followed through the whole logical consequences of the very robotic laws he created.Something that the dumb ass retard IRONO movie can't even achieve in it's dreams. The logic in the fucking movie is to laugh at and pointed at. It's another of those dumb stupid movies that think they are so fucking smart. And because they can't create tension to save their asses, they go for cheap over-blown action nonsense. Cut to action when the (very little to begin with) intelligence runs dry.To say say that IRINO is an insult and a pissing and a shitting upon Asimov's work is to be to kind to that exacrable piece of shit of a movie. That abortion is a clear reflection of the intellectual giants that are the Amazing Duo Of Hackdom that are the Big Willy/Akiva The Hack combo.What's tragic and sad about IRONO is that you can see that the director is actually an intelligent man. IRINO, like I AM LEGEND IN NAME ONLY, are very dumb movies directed by two talented and intelligent people. Both movies, IRINO and IALINO, are clear shows of the defeat of two inteligent and talented filmmkaers served by terrible dumb studio scripts who wiork as means to support the boundless egomaniac narcisism of a terribly overrated star. And i used to like Will smith back in his early days. He and his hack buddy can kiss my ass now, and shove up in their fucking asses their abortions of movies they made by fucking up two legendary SF literary works of two legenday authors. and al for the sake of making two dumb shallow ass action movies that serve as a star's ego boster? Fuck that shit, and fuck them up in their fucking asses! Truly IRINO is the spiritual predecessor of STINO, only difference is that at least IRINO had a smart guy suffering through a terrible script. By the time the later was made, they didn't even bother to hire talent anymore.
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I don't even remember much about it, which is not a sign of a good movie methinks, I found it mostly boring (and no, not because it didn't have enough action)
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to the vast majority of dumb ass retard action movies bullshit that most AICN dwellers masturbate on.
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Why yes. Is that not standard practice?
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ha ha
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Easily. Pretentious, boring, vapid, cringeworthy acting--just a flat out trainwreck of a film.
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Dec 07, 2009 4:22:03 AM CST
Who "got his start shooting a geeky British television series"?
by badblokebob
Maybe I'm being spectacularly dense, particularly as I'm both British and geeky, but I can't think who this is referring to.
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George the VII chicken was the greatest talkbacker in history. I miss his drunken, feathery comments.
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If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.
I saw all the gushing over that film when it came out. I watched it over the Thanksgiving holidays and it was just... ok. It sure as shit shouldn't have beat out many of the movies on the "Just missed it" list. -
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